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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-14599: libx11 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-14599: libx11 security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/24/2018
Created
09/13/2019
Added
09/12/2019
Modified
09/12/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libx11
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libx11-common
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libx11-devel

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