CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2018-14600

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.

7.5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

9.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-August/002916.html Third Party Advisory
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=dbf72805fd9d7b1846fe9a11b46f3994bfc27fea Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102068 Issue Tracking Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/21/6 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041543 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00030.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/ Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105177 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-01 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:x.org:libx11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2018-08-24 07:29

Updated : 2019-08-06 05:15

NVD link : CVE-2018-14600

Mitre link : CVE-2018-14600

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-787