GHSA-mq5f-6g2w-32rq

GHSA-mq5f-6g2w-32rq PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing extra length validation in ProcEstablishConnection function allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

9.800000190734863

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

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

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References

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=b747da5e25be944337a9cd1415506fc06b70aa81 url
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.html url
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-05 url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12176 advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509214 url
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000 url

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