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Ubuntu: USN-3456-1 (CVE-2017-12177): X.Org X server vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Oct 12, 2017

Added

Oct 17, 2017

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was vulnerable to integer overflow in ProcDbeGetVisualInfo function allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-xserver-xorg-coreubuntu-upgrade-xserver-xorg-core-hwe-16-04ubuntu-upgrade-xserver-xorg-core-lts-xenial

References

CVE-2017-12177
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-12177
CWE-190
CWE-391
DEBIAN-DSA-4000
EUVD-EUVD-2017-3752
NVD-CVE-2017-12177
UBUNTU-USN-3456-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-3752

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