An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c interprets a variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading to DoS or remote code execution.
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.09426}

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{'score': 0.08595}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T09:29:51.697Z

Reserved: 2018-07-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-14600

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-24T19:29:01.567

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:49:23.207

Link: CVE-2018-14600

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-14600 - Bugzilla

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