vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-14600: Security patch for xorg-x11-server (ALAS-2020-1433)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 24, 2018
Added
Jun 4, 2020
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c interprets a variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading to DoS or remote code execution.

Solutions

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