Description
An integer overflow vulnerability leading to a double-free was found in libX11. This flaw allows a local privileged attacker to cause an application compiled with libX11 to crash, or in some cases, result in arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity as well as system availability.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
The X11 Project libX11
1.6.12affected
References
- https://github.com/Ruia-ruia/Exploits/blob/master/DFX11details.txt ↗
- https://github.com/Ruia-ruia/Exploits/blob/master/x11doublefree.sh ↗
- https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-August/003056.html ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14363 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-2/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7AVXCQOSCAPKYYHFIJAZ6E2C7LJBTLXF/ ↗