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CVE-2018-14598
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-08-24T19:29:01.377 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:41:15.270

Summary

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).

Affected products

x.org — libx11

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