PT-2017-11648 · X.Org+3 · X.Org Server+3

Michal Srb · Published 2017-07-06 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-10971

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions X.Org X server versions prior to 2017-06-19

Description A stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events can be exploited by an authenticated user to crash the X Server or execute code in its context.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2017-06-19, update to a version released after 2017-06-19 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2383

CVE-2017-10971

DLA-1026-1

DSA-3905-1

MGASA-2017-0269

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1885-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11525-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1850-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1859-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1860-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1861-1

SUSE-SU-2017_1850-1

SUSE-SU-2017_1859-1

SUSE-SU-2017_1860-1

SUSE-SU-2017_1861-1

USN-3362-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

X.Org Server

References · 84

• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2017-2383 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1860-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3905-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11525-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10971 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10972 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10971 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1861-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10971 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3362-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1859-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3905-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10971 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-10971 · Vendor Advisory