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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-13723: Vulnerability in X.Org

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-13723: Vulnerability in X.Org

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/09/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/06/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xephyr-1-14-5-0-175-3-28-0-2-1543
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xorg-1-14-5-0-175-3-28-0-2-1543
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xvfb-1-14-5-0-175-3-28-0-2-1543
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xvnc-1-1-0-0-175-3-28-0-2-1543

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