Bug 2026072 (CVE-2021-4009)

Summary:	CVE-2021-4009 xorg-x11-server: SProcXFixesCreatePointerBarrier out-of-bounds access
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
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, mvanderw, ofourdan, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, security-response-team, xgl-maint
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	xorg-x11-server 21.1.2, xorg-x11-server 1.20.14	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in xorg-x11-server. An out-of-bounds access can occur in the SProcXFixesCreatePointerBarrier function.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2022-01-03 11:11:12 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	2030170, 2030171, 2030172, 2032943, 2038068, 2038070
Bug Blocks:	2026049, 2026076

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-11-23 17:32:04 UTC

As per upstream:

The handler for the CreatePointerBarrier request of the XFixes extension does not properly validate the request length leading to out of bounds memory write.

Comment 2 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-12-15 14:21:02 UTC

Created xorg-x11-server tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2032943]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2022-01-03 10:21:44 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2022:0003 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0003

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-01-03 11:11:09 UTC

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-2021-4009

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 14:18:08 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:1917 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1917