Vulnerability CVE-2017-10972
Published: 2017-07-06

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.

Type:

CWE-665

 (Improper Initialization)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
X.org -> Xorg-server 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced
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