CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-14599

Off-by-one Error

Published: Aug 24, 2018 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.1 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c is vulnerable to an off-by-one error caused by malicious server responses, leading to DoS or possibly unspecified other impact.

Weakness

A product calculates or uses an incorrect maximum or minimum value that is 1 more, or 1 less, than the correct value.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libx11 X.org * 1.6.5 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat gdm-1:3.28.2-16.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat libX11-0:1.6.7-2.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat libxkbcommon-0:0.7.1-3.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat mesa-libGLw-0:8.0.0-5.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xorg-x11-drv-ati-0:19.0.1-2.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xorg-x11-drv-vesa-0:2.4.0-3.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0:0.36.1-3.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xorg-x11-server-0:1.20.4-7.el7 *
Libx11 Ubuntu bionic *
Libx11 Ubuntu devel *
Libx11 Ubuntu trusty *
Libx11 Ubuntu upstream *
Libx11 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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