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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-14598: Vulnerability in Libraries: Libx11

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-14598: Vulnerability in Libraries: Libx11

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/24/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/19/2018
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later on, leading to DoS (segmentation fault).

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libx11-1-6-12-0-175-3-36-0-25-1554
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxau-1-0-8-0-175-3-36-0-25-1554
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxcb-1-9-1-0-175-3-36-0-25-1554
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxdmcp-1-1-1-0-175-3-36-0-25-1554
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxevie-1-0-3-0-175-3-36-0-25-1554
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxext-1-3-2-0-175-3-36-0-25-1554
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxscrnsaver-1-2-2-0-175-3-36-0-25-1554
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-communication-im-pidgin-2-12-0-11-4-3-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-audio-taglib-1-11-1-11-4-3-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-desktop-webkitgtk4-2-20-5-11-4-3-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-library-libx11-1-6-5-11-4-3-0-1-1-0

References

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