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CVE-2017-10972

Published: 6 July 2017

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
xorg
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(code not present)
zesty Not vulnerable
(code not present)
xorg-hwe-16.04
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

xorg-server
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty
Released (2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.9)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.3)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty
Released (2:1.19.3-1ubuntu1.1)
Patches:
upstream: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced
xorg-server-hwe-16.04
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6.1~16.04.2)
yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

xorg-server-lts-utopic
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored [end of life])
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

xorg-server-lts-vivid
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored [end of life])
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

xorg-server-lts-wily
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored [end of life])
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

xorg-server-lts-xenial
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty
Released (2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.3~trusty2)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N