vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-13723: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 9, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xorg-server
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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