Vulnerability in X X11
CVE-2008-1377
The (1) SProcRecordCreateContext and (2) SProcRecordRegisterClients functions in the Record extension and the (3) SProcSecurityGenerateAuthorization function in the Security extension in the X server 1.4 in X.Org X11R7.3 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via requests with crafted length values that specify an arbitrary number of bytes to be swapped on the heap, which triggers heap corruption.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.027 (85.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.027 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- X X11 — versions r7.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2607
- secunia.com/advisories/30629 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php (third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10109 (signature, vdb-entry)
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/33937 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30664 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493550/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/31025 (third-party-advisory)