Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting xorg-server package, versions <2:1.19.2-1+deb9u2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.65% (79th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-XORGSERVER-326970
- published 24 Jan 2018
- disclosed 24 Jan 2018
Introduced: 24 Jan 2018
CVE-2017-12179 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
xorg-server
to version 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xorg-server
package and not the xorg-server
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was vulnerable to integer overflow in (S)ProcXIBarrierReleasePointer functions allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.