Information disclosure in X.org Server - CVE-2017-10972
Published: July 11, 2017 / Updated: July 13, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7409
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10972
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The weakness exists due to handling of uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent. A remote attacker can access potentially privileged data from the X server.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
The weakness exists due to handling of uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent. A remote attacker can access potentially privileged data from the X server.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
Affected software
X.org Server
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
SUSE Linux
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
SUSE Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2017-10972
Update to the latest version.