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Mageia: 2022-0431 Moderate: Xorg-Server Buffer Overflow and Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent x11-server updates fix a critical buffer overflow and a memory leak issue in Mageia systems, along with details on severity levels provided
Buffer overflow in function _GetCountedString of the file xkb/xkb.c

Summary

Buffer overflow in function _GetCountedString of the file xkb/xkb.c. (CVE-2022-3550) Memory leak in the function ProcXkbGetKbdByName of the file xkb/xkb.c. (CVE-2022-3551)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31070

- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2022-November/012799.html

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- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00012.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3550

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3551

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue buffer overflow memory leak mageia x11-server

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/x11-server-1.20.14-4.mga8

Publication date: 18 Nov 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0431.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-3550, CVE-2022-3551

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue buffer overflow memory leak mageia x11-server

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