CVE-2007-5958

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via a filename argument in the -sp option to the X program, which produces different error messages depending on whether the filename exists.

Affected products

X.Org Xserver: through 1.4

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204362
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01543321
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-January/031918.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28273
http://secunia.com/advisories/28532
http://secunia.com/advisories/28535
http://secunia.com/advisories/28536
http://secunia.com/advisories/28539

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