CVE-2020-14344: medium-severity vulnerability in The X11 Project libX11
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.7epss 0.5%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
The X11 Project · libX11Related CVEs — The X11 Project libX11
In the same product, most dangerous first.
References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00014.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00015.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00024.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00031.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14344https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4VDDSAYV7XGNRCXE7HCU23645MG74OFF/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7AVXCQOSCAPKYYHFIJAZ6E2C7LJBTLXF/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XY4H2SIEF2362AMNX5ZKWAELGU7LKFJB/https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-July/003050.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-18https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-2/