Published: 18/05/2012 Updated: 29/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 890

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Format string vulnerability in the LogVHdrMessageVerb function in os/log.c in X.Org X11 1.11 allows malicious users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an input device name.

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Debian Bug report logs - #673148 CVE-2012-2118 Package: xorg-server; Maintainer for xorg-server is Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <muehlenhoff@univentionde> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:12:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: security Found in version 2:1999902-1 Fixe ...

The XOrg X server could be made to crash if a specially crafted input device was added ...

CWE-20 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/2 http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/10001/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53150 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/18/8 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74930 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673148 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1502-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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