CVE-2020-14344

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.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/31/1

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-18

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-July/003050.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XY4H2SIEF2362AMNX5ZKWAELGU7LKFJB/

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/4VDDSAYV7XGNRCXE7HCU23645MG74OFF/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14344

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00031.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00024.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00015.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00014.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3