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CVE-2018-14598

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CVE-2018-14598

Published: Aug 24, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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).

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

USN-3758-2
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
GLSA-201811-01
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
105177
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
1041543
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
[xorg-announce] 20180821 libX11 1.6.6
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
USN-3758-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
FEDORA-2019-6a756fe3a5
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
RHSA-2019:2079
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT

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