Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in X.Org Server

CVE-2017-13723 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp.

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