Bug 1869139 (CVE-2020-14360)
| Summary: | CVE-2020-14360 xorg-x11-server: Out-of-bounds access in XkbSetMap function | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | ajax, bskeggs, caillon+fedoraproject, jglisse, ofourdan, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, security-response-team, xgl-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | xorg-x11-server 1.20.10 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
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A flaw was found in the X.Org Server. An out-of-bounds access in the XkbSetMap function may lead to a privilege escalation vulnerability. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2020-12-14 18:47:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1903258, 1904933, 1904934, 1904935 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1887277 | ||
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Description
Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
2020-08-17 04:25:32 UTC
Acknowledgments: Name: Jan-Niklas Sohn (Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative) Created xorg-x11-server tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1903258] External References: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-December/003066.html Upstream patch: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/446ff2d3177087b8173fa779fa5b77a2a128988b Statement: The Xorg server in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 does not run with root privileges, thus this flaw has been rated as having a moderate impact on that platform. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2020:5408 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5408 This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-14360 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2021:1804 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1804 |