PT-2017-11649 · X.Org+3 · X.Org Server+3

Michal Srb · Published 2017-07-06 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-10972

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue concerns uninitialized data in endianness conversion within the XEvent handling of the X server, allowing authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data.

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

Fix

Improper Initialization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-665

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2383

CVE-2017-10972

DLA-1026-1

DSA-3905-1

MGASA-2017-0269

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1885-1

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 · 49

• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10972 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2017-2383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10972 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10972 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2624 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3362-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10972 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1850-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1860-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13723 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0269.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10971 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3905-1 · Vendor Advisory