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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-10972

Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before 2017-06-19 allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:43 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2017-10972

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Jul 2017, 11:29 UTC

Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before 2017-06-19 allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.

osv:CVE-2017-10972
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:44.170690577Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379660,
  "published_at": "2017-07-06T11:29:00.273+00:00"
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