CVE-2017-12176
highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.042 · 91 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing extra length validation in ProcEstablishConnection function allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
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affected products (4)
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references (16)
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- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509214cnnvd
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=b747da5e25be944337a9cd1415506fc06b70aa81cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12176cnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-05cnnvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509214enisa_euvd
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=b747da5e25be944337a9cd1415506fc06b70aa81enisa_euvd
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