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CVE-2014-8097

• 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 DBE extension in X.Org X Window System (aka X11 or X) X11R6.1 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) ProcDbeSwapBuffers or (2) SProcDbeSwapBuffers function.

Affected products

• X.Org X11: 6.1
• 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/71604
• 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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