CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-14344

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2020-08-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-08-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in The X Input Method (XIM) client was implemented in libX11 before version 1.6.10. As per upstream this is security relevant when setuid programs call XIM client functions while running with elevated privileges. No such programs are shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Affected configurations

• x.org libx11 (< 1.6.10) • fedoraproject fedora 31 • fedoraproject fedora 32 • fedoraproject fedora 33 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 20.04 • opensuse leap 15.1 • opensuse leap 15.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References