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Mageia 9 MGASA-2024-0357 moderate: x11-server buffer overflow risk

mageia
Calendar Grey November 12, 2024
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Enhanced x11-server, x11-server-xwayland, & tigervnc packages resolve vulnerabilities affecting Mageia systems.
Due to an improperly tracked allocation size in _XkbSetCompatMap, a local attacker may be able to trigger a buffer overflow condition via a specially-crafted payload, leading to de...

Summary

Due to an improperly tracked allocation size in _XkbSetCompatMap, a local attacker may be able to trigger a buffer overflow condition via a specially-crafted payload, leading to denial of service or local privilege escalation in distributions where the X.org server is run with root privileges. (CVE-2024-9632)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33710

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/10/29/2

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9632

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow local privilege escalation tigervnc Mageia x11-server

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/x11-server-21.1.8-7.6.mga9

- 9/core/x11-server-xwayland-22.1.9-1.6.mga9

- 9/core/tigervnc-1.13.1-2.6.mga9

Publication date: 12 Nov 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0357.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-9632

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow local privilege escalation tigervnc Mageia x11-server

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