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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-14599: Moderate: Xorg security and bug fix update (CESA-2019:2079)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 24, 2018
Added
Aug 28, 2019
Modified
May 25, 2023

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.

Solutions

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