CVE-2017-10972

Debian Security Advisory 3905-1

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before 2017-06-19 allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.

Datos no inicializados en la conversión endianness en el manejo de XEvent del servidor X de X.Org antes del 19-06-2017, permitieron a usuarios maliciosos autenticados potencialmente acceder a datos privilegiados del servidor X.

It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled endianness conversion of certain X events. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use this issue to crash the server, or possibly execute arbitrary code as an administrator. It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled endianness conversion of certain X events. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use this issue to possibly obtain sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-07-06 CVE Reserved
2017-07-06 CVE Published
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-665: Improper Initialization

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283	Issue Tracking

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced	2019-10-03

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905	2019-10-03

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
X.org Search vendor "X.org"		Xorg-server Search vendor "X.org" for product "Xorg-server"				<= 1.19.3 Search vendor "X.org" for product "Xorg-server" and version " <= 1.19.3"		-		Affected