Security Advisory

CVE-2014-8091

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-12-10 15:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 13:10:50

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

X.Org X Window System (aka X11 and X) X11R5 and X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3, when using SUN-DES-1 (Secure RPC) authentication credentials, does not check the return value of a malloc call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and server crash) via a crafted connection request.

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