vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3453-1 (CVE-2017-13721): X.Org X server vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 9, 2017
Added
Oct 12, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, an attacker authenticated to an X server with the X shared memory extension enabled can cause aborts of the X server or replace shared memory segments of other X clients in the same session.

Solutions

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