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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-14344: Security patch for libX11 (ALAS-2021-1661)

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Severity	CVSS	Published	Added	Modified
5	(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)	Aug 5, 2020	Jun 24, 2021	Sep 30, 2022

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Aug 5, 2020

Added

Jun 24, 2021

Modified

Sep 30, 2022

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.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libx11amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libx11-commonamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libx11-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libx11-devel

References

AMAZON-AL2/ALAS-2021-1661
CVE-2020-14344
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-14344

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