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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-14599: Off-by-one Error

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 24, 2018
Added
Oct 10, 2018
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c is vulnerable to an off-by-one error caused by malicious server responses, leading to DoS or possibly unspecified other impact.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libx11
Title
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