CVE-2013-1998

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-06-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in X.org libXi 1.7.1 and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the (1) XGetDeviceButtonMapping, (2) XIPassiveGrabDevice, and (3) XQueryDeviceState functions.

Affected products

x.org libXi: through 1.7.1; 1.5.0, 1.5.99.2, 1.5.99.3, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2 (+2)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106913.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00161.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2683
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/23/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60127
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1859-1
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106913.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00161.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2683
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/23/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60127

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