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CVE-2017-10972

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-665

Description

Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before 2017-06-19 allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.

Affected products

• xorg-x11-server: through 1.19.3

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced

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