Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-14598: X.Org X11 library: Multiple vulnerabilities
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
08/24/2018
03/19/2019
11/09/2018
08/08/2019
Description
An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later on, leading to DoS (segmentation fault).
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libx11
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