Out-of-Bounds Affecting libx11 package, versions [0, 1.5.99.902)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.26% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBX11-2364176
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Jun 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Jun 2013

CVE-2013-1997  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libx11 to version 1.5.99.902 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Multiple buffer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 (1.6 RC1) and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the (1) XAllocColorCells, (2) _XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply, (3) _XkbReadGeomShapes, (4) _XkbReadGetGeometryReply, (5) _XkbReadKeySyms, (6) _XkbReadKeyActions, (7) _XkbReadKeyBehaviors, (8) _XkbReadModifierMap, (9) _XkbReadExplicitComponents, (10) _XkbReadVirtualModMap, (11) _XkbReadGetNamesReply, (12) _XkbReadGetMapReply, (13) _XimXGetReadData, (14) XListFonts, (15) XListExtensions, and (16) XGetFontPath functions.

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