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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-14600: libX11 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-14600: libX11 security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/24/2018
Created
12/19/2019
Added
12/18/2019
Modified
12/18/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libx11
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libx11-common
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libx11-devel

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