CVE-2017-10972 — Vulnetix

CVE-2017-10972 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.34% · 57.4th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.34%

57.4th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	xorg-server-lts-xenial	2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2~trusty3, *, 0
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	xorg-server-hwe-16.04	2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6.1~16.04.1, 0
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	xorg-server	, , *
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	xorg-server	, , 0

Exploit Intelligence

DSA-3905 (circl)
99543 (circl)
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced (circl)
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283 (circl)

Timeline

Jul 6, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
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Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10972 third-party-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/06/6 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3362-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10972 third-party-advisory

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