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SUSE: CVE-2017-10972: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-10972: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/12/2017
Modified
06/20/2021

Description

Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before 2017-06-19 allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-xorg-x11-server
  • suse-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-extra
  • suse-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-sdk
  • suse-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-wayland
  • suse-upgrade-xorg-x11-xvnc

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:1850-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1859-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1860-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1861-1
  • DSA-3905
  • CVE-2017-10972
  • USN-3362-1
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