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CVE-2010-4818

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4818 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the GLX extension of X.Org xserver 1.7.7, potentially allowing remote authenticated users to crash the server or execute arbitrary code. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.5) can be exploited with medium complexity over the network by an authenticated user, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.7.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x.org:1.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

8.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0535 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 1,162 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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 4Fixed in: xorg-x11-0:6.8.2-1.EL.70
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xorg-x11-server-0:1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xorg-x11-server-0:1.7.7-29.el6_1.2
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-4818Moderate

X.org: multiple GLX input sanitization flaws

Sep 21, 2011

References

cgit.freedesktop.org / xorg/xserver/commit
cgit.freedesktop.org / xorg/xserver/commit
cgit.freedesktop.org / xorg/xserver/commit
ExploitPatch
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2011-1359.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2011-1360.html
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/09/22/7
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/09/23/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/09/23/6