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CVE-2018-14598

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later on, leading to DoS (segmentation fault).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 28
• x.org libX11: through 1.6.5

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/21/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105177
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041543
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102073
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=e83722768fd5c467ef61fa159e8c6278770b45c2
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00030.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGARUV66TS5OOSLR5A76BUB7SDV6GO4F/
• https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-August/002916.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-01
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/

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