CVE-2012-1699

low

Description

The ProcSetEventMask function in difs/events.c in the xfs font server for X.Org X11R6 through X11R6.6 and XFree86 before 3.3.3 calls the SendErrToClient function with a mask value instead of a pointer, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) or obtain potentially sensitive information from memory via a SetEventMask request that triggers an invalid pointer dereference.

References

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2012-July/002040.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=135765511704334&w=2

https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_1699_denial_of

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842841

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19369

http://twitter.com/bsdaemon/status/228958599790071809

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-12-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low