X11 Server Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2014-8101 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

The RandR extension in XFree86 4.2.0, X.Org X Window System (aka X11 or X) X11R6.7, and X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted length or index value to the (1) SProcRRQueryVersion, (2) SProcRRGetScreenInfo, (3) SProcRRSelectInput, or (4) SProcRRConfigureOutputProperty function.

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