CVE-2017-10972

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before 2017-06-19 allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-665

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489cedPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489cedPatch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 6, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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