Out-of-Bounds Write Affecting xorg-server package, versions [,21.1.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGSERVER-6036308
  • published26 Oct 2023
  • disclosed25 Oct 2023
  • creditJan-Niklas Sohn

Introduced: 25 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-5367  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xorg-server to version 21.1.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds Write due to an invalid offset calculation in XIChangeDeviceProperty and RRChangeOutputProperty. The resulting memcpy function would write into memory outside the heap-allocated array.

CVSS Scores

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