CVE-2018-14600 (GCVE-0-2018-14600)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-24 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:29
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c interprets a variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading to DoS or remote code execution.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/comm… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-A… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2018-08-21 00:00
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