CVEs-PoC/2018/CVE-2018-14598.md

### [CVE-2018-14598](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14598)
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### Description

An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later on, leading to DoS (segmentation fault).

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/revl-ca/scan-docker-image