CVE-2017-2626: Xorg libICE

It was discovered that libICE before 1.0.9-8 used a weak entropy to generate keys.

CVSS 5.2 MediumEPSS 0.0046 · 40th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 27 Jul 2018, 19:00 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	libICE	affected 1.0.9-8

Identifiers

CVE-2017-2626

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-331

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

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

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0046, the 40th percentile, on 6 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

cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libICE/commit/?id=ff5e59f32255913bb1cdf51441b98c9107ae165b confirm
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03 vendor-advisorygentoo
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2626 confirm
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865 vendor-advisoryredhat
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037919 vdb-entrysectrack
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96480 vdb-entrybid
www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/14/3 mailing-listmlist
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00022.html mailing-listmlist

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