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9.8 Critical

CVE-2023-6816 Xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in devicefocusevent and procxiquerypointer

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1 detail

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

Exploitable remotely over the network, without an account and without any user action; an attacker can seriously compromise confidentiality, integrity or availability.

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected products and versions

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Product Affected versions Fixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Versions not published

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