Bug 1500388 (CVE-2017-13723)

Summary: CVE-2017-13723 xorg-x11-server: Global buffer overflow in xkbtext.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: airlied, ajax, alexl, bskeggs, caillon+fedoraproject, jglisse, mbarnes, ofourdan, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, slawomir, xgl-maint
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-server 1.19.4 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1500389, 1910732    
Bug Blocks: 1500390    

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 13:28:18 UTC 
In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp.

References:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/04/10
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2017-October/002808.html

Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=94f11ca5cf011ef123bd222cabeaef6f424d76ac
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 13:29:01 UTC 
Created xorg-x11-server tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1500389]