Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-4819

Title: X X.Org-Xserver Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-4819.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Sep 05, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-4819: The ProcRenderAddGlyphs function in the Render extension (render/render.c) in X.Org xserver 1.7.7 and earlier allows local users to read arbitrary memory and possibly cause a denial of service (server crash) via unspecified vectors related to an "input sanitization flaw."

Impacted Vendors

x 1

Reference Links

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/X_advisory2.asc http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/render/render.c?id=5725849a1b427cd4a72b84e57f211edb35838718 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1359.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1360.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1026149 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/22/8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/23/5 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28801 http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/X_advisory2.asc http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/render/render.c?id=5725849a1b427cd4a72b84e57f211edb35838718 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1359.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1360.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1026149 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/22/8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/23/5 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28801

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-4819 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 05, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.