Out-of-Bounds Affecting xorg-server package, versions [,1.19.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGSERVER-2371796
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-13723  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xorg-server to version 1.19.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp.

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