Uninitialized Pointer and Memory Corruption Vulnerability in X.org libXt

CVE-2013-2005 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

X.org libXt 1.1.3 and earlier does not check the return value of the XGetWindowProperty function, which allows X servers to trigger use of an uninitialized pointer and memory corruption via vectors related to the (1) ReqCleanup, (2) HandleSelectionEvents, (3) ReqTimedOut, (4) HandleNormal, and (5) HandleSelectionReplies functions.

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