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Permalink CVE-2024-31081
7.3 HIGH
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): LOW
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): HIGH
  • Integrity impact (I): LOW
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 6 months ago
Xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overread/data leakage in procxipassivegrabdevice

A heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability was found in the X.org server's ProcXIPassiveGrabDevice() function. This issue occurs when byte-swapped length values are used in replies, potentially leading to memory leakage and segmentation faults, particularly when triggered by a client with a different endianness. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to cause the X server to read heap memory values and then transmit them back to the client until encountering an unmapped page, resulting in a crash. Despite the attacker's inability to control the specific memory copied into the replies, the small length values typically stored in a 32-bit integer can result in significant attempted out-of-bounds reads.

References

Affected products

tigervnc
  • *
xwayland
  • ==23.2.5
xorg-server
  • ==1.7.0
  • ==21.1.12
xorg-x11-server
  • *
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland
  • *

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