Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2018-14598 First vendor Publication 2018-08-24
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-11-07

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.5
Base Score 7.5 Environmental Score 7.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 7.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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).

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14598

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 36
Os 4
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-11-09 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201811-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1482.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-23 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_fe99d3caa63a11e8a7c654e1ad3d6335.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-22 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2018-233-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedora...
Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105177
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102073
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=e83722768fd5c467ef61f...
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-01
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/21/6
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00030.html
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-August/002916.html
REDHAT https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041543
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/

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2018-08-25 00:20:19
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