PT-2017-12389

CVE-2017-12185

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Published

2017-10-12

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Updated

2026-10-31

Description by

CVSS 3.1
9.8
Critical
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions xorg-x11-server versions prior to 1.19.5
Description The issue is related to missing length validation in the MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension, which allows a malicious X client to cause the X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Recommendations For versions prior to 1.19.5, update to version 1.19.5 or later to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-391: Unchecked Error Condition
CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
Related identifiers
CVE-2017-12185
ALT-PU-2017-2438
CLEANSTART-2025-MG36354
DLA-1186-1
DSA-4000-1
MGASA-2017-0401
SUSE-SU-2017:3025-1
SUSE-SU-2017:3047-1
USN-3456-1
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