Vulnerability CVE-2017-12184
Published: 2018-01-24

Description:
xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing length validation in XINERAMA extension allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
X.org -> Xorg-server 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509225
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=cad5a1050b7184d828aef9c1dd151c3ab649d37e
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000
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