CVE-2017-12181

EPSS 4.3%CWE-391

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing length validation in XFree86 DGA extension allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

The X.Org Foundation · xorg-x11-server

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References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509222 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1b1d4c04695dced2463404174b50b3581dbd857b https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-05 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000