vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-14599): libx11 vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 21, 2018
Added
Sep 13, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c is vulnerable to an off-by-one error caused by malicious server responses, leading to DoS or possibly unspecified other impact.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libx11-6ubuntu-upgrade-libx11-dev
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