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CVE-2014-8098

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-8098 describes a denial-of-service or potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability within the GLX extension of XFree86 4.0, X.Org X11R6.7, and X.Org Server before version 1.16.3. Remote authenticated users can trigger this by providing crafted length or index values to numerous GLX functions, leading to out-of-bounds read or write operations. With a CVSS score of 6.5, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring authentication but allowing for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.16.2.99.901CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xfree86:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x11:6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0519 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xorg-x11-server-0:1.1.1-48.107.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xorg-x11-server-0:1.15.0-25.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: xorg-x11-server-0:1.15.0-7.el7_0.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-8098Important

xorg-x11-server: out of bounds access due to not validating length or offset values in GLX extension

Dec 9, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0532.html
Third Party Advisory
nvidia.custhelp.com / app/answers/detail/a_id/3610
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/61947
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/62292
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201504-06
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3095
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/71606
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
x.org / wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2014-12-09
PatchVendor Advisory