| Name | CVE-2017-10972 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1026-1, DSA-3905-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 867492 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xorg-server (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2:1.16.4-1+deb8u17 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u9 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u20 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 2:1.20.4-1+deb10u15 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2:1.20.4-1+deb10u14 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2:1.20.11-1+deb11u13 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2:1.20.11-1+deb11u14 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 2:21.1.7-3+deb12u8 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2:21.1.14-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/06/6