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

    Heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent and ProcXIQueryPointer

    NOTE: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2024-January/061525.htmlNOTE:
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/9e2ecb2af8302dedc49cb6a63ebe063c58a9e7e3     (CVE-2023-6816)

    Reattaching to different master device may lead to out-of-bounds memory access

    NOTE: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2024-January/061525.htmlNOTE:
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/ece23be888a93b741aa1209d1dbf64636109d6a5NOTE:
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/219c54b8a3337456ce5270ded6a67bcde53553d5NOTE:
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/df3c65706eb169d5938df0052059f3e0d5981b74     (CVE-2024-0229)

    Heap buffer overflow in XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent

    NOTE: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2024-January/061525.htmlNOTE:
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/4a5e9b1895627d40d26045bd0b7ef3dce503cbd1     (CVE-2024-21885)

    Heap buffer overflow in DisableDevice

    NOTE: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2024-January/061525.htmlNOTE:
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/bc1fdbe46559dd947674375946bbef54dd0ce36bNOTE:
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/26769aa71fcbe0a8403b7fb13b7c9010cc07c3a8     (CVE-2024-21886)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

Detections

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

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194724

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.1 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202412120955
Version 1.0 Apr 30, 2024, 4:27 AM New Plugin Feed: 202404300427