CVE-2020-14344 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00014.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00024.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00031.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14344 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4VDDSAYV7XGNRCXE7HCU23645MG74OFF/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7AVXCQOSCAPKYYHFIJAZ6E2C7LJBTLXF/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XY4H2SIEF2362AMNX5ZKWAELGU7LKFJB/ https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-July/003050.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-18 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-2/ https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/31/1

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.7