CVE-2017-10971 - log back

CVE-2017-10971 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity
+ High
Remote
+ Remote
Type
+ Arbitrary code execution
Description
+ In the X.Org X server on v.1.19.3, a user authenticated to an X Session could crash or execute code in the context of the X Server by exploiting a stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events.
References
+ https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283
+ https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=215f894965df5fb0bb45b107d84524e700d2073c
+ https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=8caed4df36b1f802b4992edcfd282cbeeec35d9d
+ https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=ba336b24052122b136486961c82deac76bbde455
Notes
+ Setting these as remote because I think they are exploitable under x-forwarding.