X.Org X Server Stack Overflow Vulnerability

CVE-2017-10971 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In the X.Org X server before 2017-06-19, a user authenticated to an X Session could crash or execute code in the context of the X Server by exploiting a stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events.

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