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CVE-2014-8095

• 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
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The XInput extension in X.Org X Window System (aka X11 or X) X11R4 and X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted length or index value to the (1) SProcXChangeDeviceControl, (2) ProcXChangeDeviceControl, (3) ProcXChangeFeedbackControl, (4) ProcXSendExtensionEvent, (5) SProcXIAllowEvents, (6) SProcXIChangeCursor, (7) ProcXIChangeHierarchy, (8) SProcXIGetClientPointer, (9) SProcXIGrabDevice, (10) SProcXIUngrabDevice, (11) ProcXIUngrabDevice, (12) SProcXIPassiveGrabDevice, (13) ProcXIPassiveGrabDevice, (14) SProcXIPassiveUngrabDevice, (15) ProcXIPassiveUngrabDevice, (16) SProcXListDeviceProperties, (17) SProcXDeleteDeviceProperty, (18) SProcXIListProperties, (19) SProcXIDeleteProperty, (20) SProcXIGetProperty, (21) SProcXIQueryDevice, (22) SProcXIQueryPointer, (23) SProcXISelectEvents, (24) SProcXISetClientPointer, (25) SProcXISetFocus, (26) SProcXIGetFocus, or (27) SProcXIWarpPointer function.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0
• X.Org X11: 4.0
• xorg-x11-server: through 1.16.2.99.901

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0532.html
• 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/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71599
• 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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