It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2024-1932 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in X.Org server. Both DeviceFocusEvent and the XIQueryPointer reply contain a bit for     each logical button currently down. Buttons can be arbitrarily mapped to any value up to 255, but the     X.Org Server was only allocating space for the device's particular number of buttons, leading to a heap     overflow if a bigger value was used. (CVE-2023-6816)

  - An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the X.Org server. This issue can be triggered when a     device frozen by a sync grab is reattached to a different master device. This issue may lead to an     application crash, local privilege escalation (if the server runs with extended privileges), or remote     code execution in SSH X11 forwarding environments. (CVE-2024-0229)

  - A flaw was found in X.Org server. In the XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent function, it is possible to exceed the     allocated array length when certain new device IDs are added to the xXIHierarchyInfo struct. This can     trigger a heap buffer overflow condition, which may lead to an application crash or remote code execution     in SSH X11 forwarding environments. (CVE-2024-21885)

  - A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the DisableDevice function in the X.Org server. This issue may     lead to an application crash or, in some circumstances, remote code execution in SSH X11 forwarding     environments. (CVE-2024-21886)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux AMI : xorg-x11-server (ALAS-2024-1932)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194724

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