CVE-2017-10971
mediumpriority · track · 36EPSS 0.039 · 90 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
In the X.Org X server before 2017-06-19, a user authenticated to an X Session could crash or execute code in the context of the X Server by exploiting a stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–8.8
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affected products (2)
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references (20)
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- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283cnnvd
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=215f894965df5fb0bb45b107d84524e700d2073ccnnvd
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=8caed4df36b1f802b4992edcfd282cbeeec35d9dcnnvd
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=ba336b24052122b136486961c82deac76bbde455cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10971cnnvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905cnnvd
- https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99546cnnvd
- https://www.x.org/wiki/Patchcnnvd
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