CVE-2012-1699 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Xfree86
Severity
3.6LOWNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.32%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 21
Latest updateMay 17
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.
CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/C:P/I:N/A:PExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 4.9