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CVE-2017-10972

Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before...

6.5 MediumFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

2.30%Up 1.3 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2017-10972
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0
4.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-665
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2017-10972
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-2610 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2017-2610
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-2fw8-6c95-mmp8 6.5

Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before...

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.

Record
GHSA-2fw8-6c95-mmp8
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-665
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2017-10972
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-10972 6.5

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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10972
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-10972 6.5

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10972
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0269 No score

Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerabilities

Eric Sesterhenn discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly compared MIT cookies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and recover the MIT cookie (CVE-2017-2624).

It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled endianness conversion of certain X events. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use this issue to crash the server, or possibly execute arbitrary code as an administrator (CVE-2017-10971).

It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled endianness conversion of certain X events. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use this issue to possibly obtain sensitive information (CVE-2017-10972).

Use-after-free issue in an unused function in XDM (boo#1025035).

Record
MGASA-2017-0269
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1850-1 No score

Security update for xorg-x11-server

This update for xorg-x11-server fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. (bnc#1035283)
  • Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the allowed range.
  • CVE-2017-10972: Initialize the xEvent eventT with zeros to avoid information leakage.
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:1850-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1859-1 No score

Security update for xorg-x11-server

This update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fixes:

  • CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. (bnc#1035283)
  • Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the allowed range.
  • CVE-2017-10972: Initialize the xEvent eventT with zeros to avoid information leakage.
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:1859-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1860-1 No score

Security update for xorg-x11-server

This update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fixes:

  • CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. (bnc#1035283)
  • Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the allowed range.
  • CVE-2017-10972: Initialize the xEvent eventT with zeros to avoid information leakage.
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:1860-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1861-1 No score

Security update for xorg-x11-server

This update for xorg-x11-server fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. (bnc#1035283)
  • Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the allowed range.
  • CVE-2017-10972: Initialize the xEvent eventT with zeros to avoid information leakage.
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:1861-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3362-1 No score

xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled endianness conversion of certain X events. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use this issue to crash the server, or possibly execute arbitrary code as an administrator. (CVE-2017-10971)

It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled endianness conversion of certain X events. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use this issue to possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2017-10972)

Eric Sesterhenn discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly compared MIT cookies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and recover the MIT cookie. (CVE-2017-2624)

Record
USN-3362-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xorg-server
Debian:12
before 2:1.19.3-2
2:1.19.3-2
xorg-server
Debian:13
before 2:1.19.3-2
2:1.19.3-2
xorg-server
Debian:14
before 2:1.19.3-2
2:1.19.3-2
xorg-server
Debian:7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 2:1.12.4-6+deb7u7, plus listed versions
2:1.12.4-62:1.12.4-6+deb7u12:1.12.4-6+deb7u22:1.12.4-6+deb7u32:1.12.4-6+deb7u42:1.12.4-6+deb7u52:1.12.4-6+deb7u6
2:1.12.4-6+deb7u7
xorg-server
Debian:8
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 2:1.16.4-1+deb8u1, plus listed versions
2:1.16.4-1
2:1.16.4-1+deb8u1
xorg-server
Debian:9
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u1, plus listed versions
2:1.19.2-1
2:1.19.2-1+deb9u1
x11-server
Mageia:5
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 1.16.4-2.2.mga5
1.16.4-2.2.mga5
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.4-27.121.2
7.4-27.121.2
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.4-27.121.2
7.4-27.121.2
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.4-27.121.2
7.4-27.121.2
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-TERADATA
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.4-27.121.2
7.4-27.121.2
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.4-27.121.2
7.4-27.121.2
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.4-27.121.2
7.4-27.121.2
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1
7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1
7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1
7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.6_1.18.3-74.2
7.6_1.18.3-74.2
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.6_1.18.3-74.2
7.6_1.18.3-74.2
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.6_1.18.3-74.2
7.6_1.18.3-74.2
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.6_1.18.3-74.2
7.6_1.18.3-74.2
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.6_1.18.3-74.2
7.6_1.18.3-74.2
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
xorg-x11-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
xorg-server
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.9, plus listed versions
2:1.14.3-3ubuntu22:1.14.3-3ubuntu32:1.14.3-3ubuntu42:1.14.3-5ubuntu12:1.14.4-1ubuntu1
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2:1.14.4-1ubuntu22:1.14.4.901-0ubuntu22:1.14.5-1ubuntu22:1.14.5-1ubuntu42:1.15.0-1ubuntu12:1.15.0-1ubuntu22:1.15.0-1ubuntu32:1.15.0-1ubuntu42:1.15.0-1ubuntu62:1.15.0-1ubuntu72:1.15.1-0ubuntu12:1.15.1-0ubuntu22:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.12:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.42:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.52:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.62:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7
2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.9
xorg-server-lts-xenial
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.3~trusty2, plus listed versions
2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2~trusty12:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2~trusty22:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2~trusty32:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.3~trusty1
2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.3~trusty2
xorg-server
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.3, plus listed versions
2:1.17.2-1ubuntu92:1.17.2-1ubuntu102:1.17.3-2ubuntu12:1.17.3-2ubuntu22:1.17.3-2ubuntu3
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2:1.17.3-2ubuntu42:1.18.1-1ubuntu32:1.18.1-1ubuntu42:1.18.3-1ubuntu12:1.18.3-1ubuntu22:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.22:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.32:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.12:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2
2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.3
xorg-server-hwe-16.04
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6.1~16.04.2, plus listed versions
2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6.1~16.04.1
2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6.1~16.04.2
xorg-server
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.9, plus listed versions
2:1.14.3-3ubuntu22:1.14.3-3ubuntu32:1.14.3-3ubuntu42:1.14.3-5ubuntu12:1.14.4-1ubuntu1
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2:1.14.4-1ubuntu22:1.14.4.901-0ubuntu22:1.14.5-1ubuntu22:1.14.5-1ubuntu42:1.15.0-1ubuntu12:1.15.0-1ubuntu22:1.15.0-1ubuntu32:1.15.0-1ubuntu42:1.15.0-1ubuntu62:1.15.0-1ubuntu72:1.15.1-0ubuntu12:1.15.1-0ubuntu22:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.12:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.42:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.52:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.62:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7
2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.9
xorg-server-lts-xenial
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.3~trusty2, plus listed versions
2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2~trusty12:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2~trusty22:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2~trusty32:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.3~trusty1
2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.3~trusty2
xorg-server
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.3, plus listed versions
2:1.17.2-1ubuntu92:1.17.2-1ubuntu102:1.17.3-2ubuntu12:1.17.3-2ubuntu22:1.17.3-2ubuntu3
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2:1.17.3-2ubuntu42:1.18.1-1ubuntu32:1.18.1-1ubuntu42:1.18.3-1ubuntu12:1.18.3-1ubuntu22:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.22:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.32:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.12:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2
2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.3
xorg-server-hwe-16.04
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6.1~16.04.2, plus listed versions
2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6.1~16.04.1
2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6.1~16.04.2

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-10972 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in X.org X Server, published July 6, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.30%, the 83rd percentile. Fixed in xorg-server 2:1.19.3-2.

References

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