CVE-2018-14600 (GCVE-0-2018-14600)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-24 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:29
VLAI?
Summary
An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c interprets a variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading to DoS or remote code execution.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-01 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105177 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102068 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/21/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041543 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/comm… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-A… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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