Bug 1509218 (CVE-2017-12177) - CVE-2017-12177 xorg-x11-server: Unvalidated variable-length request in ProcDbeGetVisualInfo
Summary: CVE-2017-12177 xorg-x11-server: Unvalidated variable-length request in ProcDb...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-12177
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1509258 1910719
Blocks: 1509263
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-11-03 11:07 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2022-04-17 20:53 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-server 1.19.5
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Last Closed: 2017-11-07 07:22:16 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-11-03 11:07:08 UTC 
Potential integer overflow vulnerability was found in ProcDbeGetVisualInfo function.

Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=4ca68b878e851e2136c234f40a25008297d8d831
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-11-03 11:07:16 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Xorg project
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-11-03 12:30:09 UTC 
Created xorg-x11-server tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1509258]
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