VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-14600

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability9.22%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-08-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references