Bug 1473205 (CVE-2017-10972)

Summary:	CVE-2017-10972 xorg-x11-server: Unitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	ajax, ofourdan, xgl-maint
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Bug Depends On:	1473206, 1910735
Bug Blocks:	1473208

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-20 08:37:43 UTC

Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Serverallowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.


Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced

References:

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-20 08:38:32 UTC

Created xorg-x11-server tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1473206]