CVE-2017-10972

medium
Published 2017-07-06 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10972

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201708-11

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.19.3-3
debian debianbookwormfixed2:1.19.3-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2:1.19.3-2
debian debianforkyfixed2:1.19.3-2
debian debiansidfixed2:1.19.3-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2:1.19.3-2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
x.orgx_server{"endIncluding":"1.19.3"}

References

CWEs

CWE-665

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