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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-10971: Vulnerability in X.Org

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-10971: Vulnerability in X.Org

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/19/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

In the X.Org X server before 2017-06-19, a user authenticated to an X Session could crash or execute code in the context of the X Server by exploiting a stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xephyr-1-14-5-0-175-3-24-0-3-1539
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xorg-1-14-5-0-175-3-24-0-3-1539
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xvfb-1-14-5-0-175-3-24-0-3-1539
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xvnc-1-1-0-0-175-3-24-0-3-1539

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