Missing Report of Error Condition Affecting libxcb-doc package, versions <0:1.9.1-2.el6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBXCBDOC-1488126
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed23 May 2013

Introduced: 23 May 2013

CVE-2013-2005  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-392  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-456  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 libxcb-doc to version 0:1.9.1-2.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:1436.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxcb-doc package and not the libxcb-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

X.org libXt 1.1.3 and earlier does not check the return value of the XGetWindowProperty function, which allows X servers to trigger use of an uninitialized pointer and memory corruption via vectors related to the (1) ReqCleanup, (2) HandleSelectionEvents, (3) ReqTimedOut, (4) HandleNormal, and (5) HandleSelectionReplies functions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1