Bug 1500388 (CVE-2017-13723) - CVE-2017-13723 xorg-x11-server: Global buffer overflow in xkbtext.c
Summary: CVE-2017-13723 xorg-x11-server: Global buffer overflow in xkbtext.c
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-13723
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: 1500389 Red Hat1910732
Blocks: Embargoed1500390
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Reported: 2017-10-10 13:28 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2022-04-17 20:53 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-server 1.19.4
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Last Closed: 2017-11-01 05:12:44 UTC

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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]
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