VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-8096

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

The SProcXCMiscGetXIDList function in the XC-MISC extension in X.Org X Window System (aka X11 or X) X11R6.0 and X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted length or index value.

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
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed 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
8.0 Affected —
7.1 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
x.orgx116.0
x.orgx_server{"endIncluding":"1.16.2.99.901"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.