Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting libx11 package, versions [,1.6.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBX11-2371848
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Aug 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-14344  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libx11 to version 1.6.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in The X Input Method (XIM) client was implemented in libX11 before version 1.6.10. As per upstream this is security relevant when setuid programs call XIM client functions while running with elevated privileges. No such programs are shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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