Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-12178  

A security issue has been found in the Xi component of xorg-server, due to an invalid length check in ProcXIChangeHierarchy.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A security issue has been found in the Xi component of xorg-server, due to an invalid length check in ProcXIChangeHierarchy.

AVG-443 xorg-server 1.19.4-1 1.19.5-1 High Fixed

21 Oct 2017 ASA-201710-29 AVG-443 xorg-server High arbitrary code execution

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=859b08d523307eebde7724fd1a0789c44813e821