vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2017-12176: xorg-x11-server: Unvalidated extra length in ProcEstablishConnection

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 24, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing extra length validation in ProcEstablishConnection function allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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