CVE-2017-10971

xorg-x11-server: Stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · June 19, 2017

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow