CVE-2018-14599

Description

An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c is vulnerable to an off-by-one error caused by malicious server responses, leading to DoS or possibly unspecified other impact.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-01

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-August/002916.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGARUV66TS5OOSLR5A76BUB7SDV6GO4F/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00030.html

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=b469da1430cdcee06e31c6251b83aede072a1ff0

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102062

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041543

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105177

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/21/6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3