CVE-2017-2624: Xorg xorg-x11-server

xorg-x11-server: It was found that xorg-x11-server before 1.19.0 including uses memcmp() to check the…

CVSS 5.9 MediumEPSS 0.0070 · 53rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 27 Jul 2018, 18:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Xorg	xorg-x11-server	affected 1.19.0

Identifiers

CVE-2017-2624

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-385

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.9	Medium	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0070, the 53rd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 27 Jul 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03 vendor-advisorygentoo
gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/d7ac755f0b618eb1259d93c8a16ec6e39a18627c confirm
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037919 vdb-entrysectrack
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.html mailing-listmlist
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-30 vendor-advisorygentoo
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96480 vdb-entrybid
www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2624 confirm

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.