CVE-2015-0255

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 and 1.17.x before 1.17.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted string length value in a XkbSetGeometry request.

Affected products

Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
xorg-x11-server: through 1.16.3; 1.17.0

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0073.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00085.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00086.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0797.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3160
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:119
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72578
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2500-1
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-02-10/

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