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Total vulnerabilities in the database
CVE-2017-2625
It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys. On a multi-user system using xdmcp, a local attacker could potentially use information available from the process list to brute force the key, allowing them to hijack other users' sessions.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| x.org / libxdmcp | - | 1.1.2 |
| redhat / enterprise_linux_desktop | 7.0 | 7.0.x |
| redhat / enterprise_linux_workstation | 7.0 | 7.0.x |
| redhat / enterprise_linux | 7.0 | 7.0.x |
| redhat / enterprise_linux_server | 7.0 | 7.0.x |
| redhat / enterprise_linux_server_aus | 7.4 | 7.4.x |
| redhat / enterprise_linux_server_eus | 7.4 | 7.4.x |
| redhat / enterprise_linux_server_eus | 7.5 | 7.5.x |
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96480
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037919
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2625
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXdmcp/commit/?id=0554324ec6bbc2071f5d1f8ad211a1643e29eb1f
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00024.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/
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