GSD-2018-14600

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22
Details
An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c interprets a variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading to DoS or remote code execution.
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