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LIN8-9741 : Security Advisory - libx11 - CVE-2018-14598

Created: Aug 31, 2018    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Sep 13, 2018
Found In Version: 8.0.0.27
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace

Description

An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later on, leading to DoS (segmentation fault).

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14598

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