Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 6, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-10972
CVE-2017-10972
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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
4- cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905nvd
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