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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-12178: xorg-x11-server security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-12178: xorg-x11-server security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/24/2018
Created
12/19/2019
Added
12/18/2019
Modified
12/18/2019

Description

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 had wrong extra length check in ProcXIChangeHierarchy function allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-common
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-xephyr
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-xorg

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