CVE-2017-10972

xorg-x11-server: Unitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · June 19, 2017

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CWE not specified