CVE - CVE-2018-14598

CVE-ID
CVE-2018-14598	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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).
References
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BID:105177 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105177 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102073 CONFIRM:https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=e83722768fd5c467ef61fa159e8c6278770b45c2 FEDORA:FEDORA-2019-6a756fe3a5 URL:https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGARUV66TS5OOSLR5A76BUB7SDV6GO4F/ GENTOO:GLSA-201811-01 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-01 MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20180829 [SECURITY] [DLA 1482-1] libx11 security update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00030.html MLIST:[oss-security] 20180821 X.Org security advisory: August 21, 2018 URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/21/6 MLIST:[xorg-announce] 20180821 libX11 1.6.6 URL:https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-August/002916.html REDHAT:RHSA-2019:2079 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 SECTRACK:1041543 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041543 UBUNTU:USN-3758-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/ UBUNTU:USN-3758-2 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20180726	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20180726)
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