cve-2017-10972
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-07-06 11:00
Modified
2024-08-05 17:57
Severity ?
Summary
Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before 2017-06-19 allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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