Security Advisory

CVE-2018-14598

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-08-24 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 09:29:51
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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).