CVE-2013-1997

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 None
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 (1.6 RC1) and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the (1) XAllocColorCells, (2) _XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply, (3) _XkbReadGeomShapes, (4) _XkbReadGetGeometryReply, (5) _XkbReadKeySyms, (6) _XkbReadKeyActions, (7) _XkbReadKeyBehaviors, (8) _XkbReadModifierMap, (9) _XkbReadExplicitComponents, (10) _XkbReadVirtualModMap, (11) _XkbReadGetNamesReply, (12) _XkbReadGetMapReply, (13) _XimXGetReadData, (14) XListFonts, (15) XListExtensions, and (16) XGetFontPath functions.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2013-1997
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2013-06-15T20:55:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2013-12-01T04:27:31
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:x:libx11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.5.99.901
cpe:2.3:a:x:libx11:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23 Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/23/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1854-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2693
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106781.html
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1997
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1997
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 10:39:41 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-01 18:46:03 2013-06-15T20:55Z 2013-06-15T20:55:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-01 18:46:03 2013-12-01T04:27:31 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-01 18:46:03 Modified Vulnerability Status updated