Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
The X11 Project libX11
1.6.10affected
References
- https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-July/003050.html ↗
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/31/1 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14344 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00014.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00015.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00024.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00031.html ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XY4H2SIEF2362AMNX5ZKWAELGU7LKFJB/ ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-18 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-1/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4VDDSAYV7XGNRCXE7HCU23645MG74OFF/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-2/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7AVXCQOSCAPKYYHFIJAZ6E2C7LJBTLXF/ ↗