ubuntu · CVE-2018-14600

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Priority: medium Published: 2018-08-24 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:47:34 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-14600 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libx11), 4 status rows across 4 suites (bionic, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 4.

Description:

An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c interprets a variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading to DoS or remote code execution.

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