DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10972

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10972 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:14	xorg-server	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	xorg-server	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	xorg-server	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	xorg-server	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Jul 6, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10972 advisory

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