Bug 1872572 - xorg-x11-server: integer overflow in init_om() can lead to double-free
Summary: xorg-x11-server: integer overflow in init_om() can lead to double-free
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1872473
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Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1872573 1872576 1872577 1872578 1872579
Blocks: 1862265
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Reported: 2020-08-26 06:33 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2020-10-29 13:48 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-server 1.20.9
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Last Closed: 2020-08-27 00:45:22 UTC
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Description Doran Moppert 2020-08-26 06:33:58 UTC 
An integer overflow in init_om(), used in LibX11 for locale handling, can lead to a double-free.

Upstream advisory:

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-August/003056.html

Upstream patch:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commit/acdaaadcb3d85c61fd43669fc5dddf0f8c3f911d
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2020-08-26 06:34:23 UTC 
Created xorg-x11-server tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1872573]
Comment 5 Doran Moppert 2020-08-27 00:46:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1872473 ***
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