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CVE-2013-1997

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 (1.6 RC1) and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the (1) XAllocColorCells, (2) _XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply, (3) _XkbReadGeomShapes, (4) _XkbReadGetGeometryReply, (5) _XkbReadKeySyms, (6) _XkbReadKeyActions, (7) _XkbReadKeyBehaviors, (8) _XkbReadModifierMap, (9) _XkbReadExplicitComponents, (10) _XkbReadVirtualModMap, (11) _XkbReadGetNamesReply, (12) _XkbReadGetMapReply, (13) _XimXGetReadData, (14) XListFonts, (15) XListExtensions, and (16) XGetFontPath functions.

Risk Information

Base Score
9.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.727

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
X11 client-side library (USN-1854-1) libx11-6_1.4.99.1-0ubuntu2_i386.debLinux
X11 client-side library (USN-1854-1) libx11-6_1.4.99.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.debLinux
X11 client-side library (USN-1854-1) libx11-6_1.4.99.1-0ubuntu2.3_i386.debLinux
X11 client-side library (USN-1854-1) libx11-6_1.4.99.1-0ubuntu2.3_amd64.debLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234