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CVE-2014-8093

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-12-10 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the GLX extension in XFree86 4.0, X.Org X Window System (aka X11 or X) X11R6.7, and X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted request to the (1) __glXDisp_ReadPixels, (2) __glXDispSwap_ReadPixels, (3) __glXDisp_GetTexImage, (4) __glXDispSwap_GetTexImage, (5) GetSeparableFilter, (6) GetConvolutionFilter, (7) GetHistogram, (8) GetMinmax, (9) GetColorTable, (10) __glXGetAnswerBuffer, (11) __GLX_GET_ANSWER_BUFFER, (12) __glXMap1dReqSize, (13) __glXMap1fReqSize, (14) Map2Size, (15) __glXMap2dReqSize, (16) __glXMap2fReqSize, (17) __glXImageSize, or (18) __glXSeparableFilter2DReqSize function, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write.

Affected products

• X.Org X11: 6.7
• xorg-x11-server: through 1.16.2
• X.Org Xfree86: 4.0

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0532.html
• http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3610
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61947
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62292
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3095
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:119
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71596
• http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2014-12-09/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-06
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0532.html

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