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.
Published: 2017-07-06
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1026-1 xorg-server security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3905-1 xorg-server security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-2610 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3362-1 X.Org X server vulnerabilities
History

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared X.org x Server
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products X.org xorg-server
X.org x Server

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00541}

epss

{'score': 0.0056}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:57:56.820Z

Reserved: 2017-07-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-10972

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-07-06T11:29:00.273

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-10972

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-06-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-10972 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses