CVE-2023-3138
Publication date 15 June 2023
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
A vulnerability was found in libX11. The security flaw occurs because the functions in src/InitExt.c in libX11 do not check that the values provided for the Request, Event, or Error IDs are within the bounds of the arrays that those functions write to, using those IDs as array indexes. They trust that they were called with values provided by an Xserver adhering to the bounds specified in the X11 protocol, as all X servers provided by X.Org do. As the protocol only specifies a single byte for these values, an out-of-bounds value provided by a malicious server (or a malicious proxy-in-the-middle) can only overwrite other portions of the Display structure and not write outside the bounds of the Display structure itself, possibly causing the client to crash with this memory corruption.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| libx11 | ||
| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Fixed 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu0.2
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| 20.04 LTS focal |
Fixed 2:1.6.9-2ubuntu1.5
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| 18.04 LTS bionic |
Fixed 2:1.6.4-3ubuntu0.4+esm1
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| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Fixed 2:1.6.3-1ubuntu2.2+esm2
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| 14.04 LTS trusty |
Fixed 2:1.6.2-1ubuntu2.1+esm3
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| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
7.5 · High
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| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References
Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)
- USN-6168-1
- libx11 vulnerability
- 15 June 2023
- USN-6168-2
- libx11 vulnerability
- 20 June 2023