VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2014-8098

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 5.19%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The GLX extension in XFree86 4.0, X.Org X Window System (aka X11 or X) X11R6.7, and X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted length or index value to the (1) __glXDisp_Render, (2) __glXDisp_RenderLarge, (3) __glXDispSwap_VendorPrivate, (4) __glXDispSwap_VendorPrivateWithReply, (5) set_client_info, (6) __glXDispSwap_SetClientInfoARB, (7) DoSwapInterval, (8) DoGetProgramString, (9) DoGetString, (10) __glXDispSwap_RenderMode, (11) __glXDisp_GetCompressedTexImage, (12) __glXDispSwap_GetCompressedTexImage, (13) __glXDisp_FeedbackBuffer, (14) __glXDispSwap_FeedbackBuffer, (15) __glXDisp_SelectBuffer, (16) __glXDispSwap_SelectBuffer, (17) __glXDisp_Flush, (18) __glXDispSwap_Flush, (19) __glXDisp_Finish, (20) __glXDispSwap_Finish, (21) __glXDisp_ReadPixels, (22) __glXDispSwap_ReadPixels, (23) __glXDisp_GetTexImage, (24) __glXDispSwap_GetTexImage, (25) __glXDisp_GetPolygonStipple, (26) __glXDispSwap_GetPolygonStipple, (27) __glXDisp_GetSeparableFilter, (28) __glXDisp_GetSeparableFilterEXT, (29) __glXDisp_GetConvolutionFilter, (30) __glXDisp_GetConvolutionFilterEXT, (31) __glXDisp_GetHistogram, (32) __glXDisp_GetHistogramEXT, (33) __glXDisp_GetMinmax, (34) __glXDisp_GetMinmaxEXT, (35) __glXDisp_GetColorTable, (36) __glXDisp_GetColorTableSGI, (37) GetSeparableFilter, (38) GetConvolutionFilter, (39) GetHistogram, (40) GetMinmax, or (41) GetColorTable function.

CVSS 2.0: 6.5 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS: 5.19% probability · 92th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-119
Affected: debian/debian linux · x.org/x server · x.org/xfree86 · x.org/x11
Source: secalert@redhat.com

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0532.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3610Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/61947Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/62292Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3095Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:119Broken Link
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71606Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2014-12-09/Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-06Third Party Advisory
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0532.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3610Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/61947Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/62292Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3095Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:119Broken Link
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71606Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2014-12-09/Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-06Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.