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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-10972: Vulnerability in X.Org

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-10972: Vulnerability in X.Org

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/19/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xephyr-1-14-5-0-175-3-24-0-3-1539
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xorg-1-14-5-0-175-3-24-0-3-1539
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xvfb-1-14-5-0-175-3-24-0-3-1539
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-server-xvnc-1-1-0-0-175-3-24-0-3-1539

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