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CVE-2017-12185

xorg-x11-server: unvalidated lengths in MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension

Published Modified CWE 391, 20
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing length validation in MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.11xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.12xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.13xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.14xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.15xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.16xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.17xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.18xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.19xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.20xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.21xorg-server1.19.5-r0
Show all 48 entries from 36 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.11xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.12xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.13xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.14xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.15xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.16xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.17xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.18xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.19xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.20xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.21xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.22xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.23xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.24xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.6xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.7xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.8xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine 3.9xorg-server1.19.5-r0
alpine edgexorg-server1.19.5-r0
debian 11xorg-server2:1.19.5-1
debian 12xorg-server2:1.19.5-1
debian 13xorg-server2:1.19.5-1
debian 14xorg-server2:1.19.5-1
debian 7xorg-server2:1.12.4-6+deb7u8
debian 8xorg-server2:1.16.4-1+deb8u2
debian 9xorg-server2:1.19.2-1+deb9u2
echoxorg-server2:1.19.5-1
Red Hatxorg-x11-serverno fix listed
Red Hatxorg-x11-server-Xdmxno fix listed
Red Hatxorg-x11-server-Xephyrno fix listed
Red Hatxorg-x11-server-Xnestno fix listed
Red Hatxorg-x11-server-Xorgno fix listed
Red Hatxorg-x11-server-Xvfbno fix listed
Red Hatxorg-x11-server-Xwaylandno fix listed
Red Hatxorg-x11-server-commonno fix listed
Red Hatxorg-x11-server-develno fix listed
Red Hatxorg-x11-server-sourceno fix listed
root.io debian 11rootio-xorg-server2:1.19.5-1
root.io debian 12rootio-xorg-server2:1.19.5-1
ubuntu 14.04xorg-server2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.11
ubuntu 14.04xorg-server-lts-xenial2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.3~trusty4
ubuntu 14.04-ESMxorg-server2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.11
ubuntu 16.04xorg-server2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7
ubuntu 16.04xorg-server-hwe-16.042:1.19.3-1ubuntu1~16.04.4
ubuntu 16.04-ESMxorg-server2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7
ubuntu 16.04-ESMxorg-server-hwe-16.042:1.19.3-1ubuntu1~16.04.4
ubuntu 17.04xorg-server2:1.19.3-1ubuntu1.3

References

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