VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-0255

medium
Published 2015-02-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.4

Description

X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 and 1.17.x before 1.17.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted string length value in a XkbSetGeometry request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:1.16.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:1.16.4-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:1.16.4-1
debian debiansidfixed2:1.16.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:1.16.4-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
x.orgx_server{"endIncluding":"1.16.3"}
x.orgx_server1.17.0

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.