xorg-x11-server denial of service vulnerability

The xorg-x11-server is an X Window System display server bundled with multiple vendor operating systems. A security vulnerability exists in the 'ProcEstablishConnection' function in versions of xorg-x11-server prior to 1.19.5, which stems from a lack of extra length detection in the program. An...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-12176

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing extra length validation in ProcEstablishConnection function allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...