vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-12187: Unchecked Error Condition

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 24, 2018
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xorg-server
Title
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