CVE-2014-8092

medium

Published 2014-12-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Multiple integer overflows in X.Org X Window System (aka X11 or X) X11R1 and X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted request to the (1) ProcPutImage, (2) GetHosts, (3) RegionSizeof, or (4) REQUEST_FIXED_SIZE function, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2:1.16.2.901-1`
sid	Fixed	`2:1.16.2.901-1`
forky	Fixed	`2:1.16.2.901-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2:1.16.2.901-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2:1.16.2.901-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
x.org	x11	`1.0`
x.org	x_server	`{"endIncluding":"1.16.2.99.901"}`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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