CVE-2017-12176
CVE-2017-12176 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence
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.
Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, redhat
Triage
Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.
Exploitation
Unreported
no source claims exploitation
EPSS
4%
chance of exploitation in 30 days
CVSS base
Unscored
no source published a base score
Affected scope
The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.
Vendors (1)
Products (1)
Weakness & attack patterns
- CWE-391
References
5 on the record
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000
vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509214
x_refsource_CONFIRM
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.html
mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-05
vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
- cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=b747da5e25be944337a9cd1415506fc06b70aa81
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Elsewhere on this site
- the x org foundationevery CVE for this vendor
- CWE-391other pages naming this weakness
Not in any source we poll
Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.
- No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
- No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
- No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.