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FreeBSD: VID-6FAA7FEB-D3FA-11EA-9ABA-0C9D925BBBC0 (CVE-2020-14344): libX11 -- Heap corruption in the X input method client in libX11

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FreeBSD: VID-6FAA7FEB-D3FA-11EA-9ABA-0C9D925BBBC0 (CVE-2020-14344): libX11 -- Heap corruption in the X input method client in libX11

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/31/2020
Created
08/05/2020
Added
08/02/2020
Modified
10/20/2020

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-6FAA7FEB-D3FA-11EA-9ABA-0C9D925BBBC0:

The X.org project reports:

The X Input Method (XIM) client implementation in libX11 has some

integer overflows and signed/unsigned comparison issues that can

lead to heap corruption when handling malformed messages from an

input method.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-libx11

References

  • CVE-2020-14344

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