CVE-2017-2626: Freedesktop Libice

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was discovered that libICE before 1.0.9-8 used a weak entropy to generate keys. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw for session hijacking using the information available from the process list.

Affected products

• Freedesktop Libice: up to and including 1.0.9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.