CVE-2012-2118

NameCVE-2012-2118
DescriptionFormat string vulnerability in the LogVHdrMessageVerb function in os/log.c in X.Org X11 1.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an input device name.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs673148

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
xorg-server (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2:1.16.4-1+deb8u17fixed
stretch (security)2:1.19.2-1+deb9u9fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2:1.19.2-1+deb9u20fixed
buster, buster (lts)2:1.20.4-1+deb10u15fixed
buster (security)2:1.20.4-1+deb10u14fixed
bullseye2:1.20.11-1+deb11u13fixed
bullseye (security)2:1.20.11-1+deb11u14fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm2:21.1.7-3+deb12u8fixed
sid, trixie2:21.1.14-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
xorg-serversourcesqueeze(not affected)
xorg-serversource(unstable)2:1.12.1.902-1673148

Notes

[squeeze] - xorg-server <not-affected> (Introduced in 1.10)
http://lists.x.org/pipermail/xorg-devel/2012-May/031411.html

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