CVE-2017-10972medium
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.
References
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2017-07-06
Updated: 2019-10-03
Type: CWE-665
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 4
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 8
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v3
Base Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 2.8
Severity: MEDIUM