CVE-2021-3782CWE-190

An internal reference count is held on the buffer pool, incremented every time a new buffer is created from the pool

Medium · published September 23, 2022

CVSS v3.1
6.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
23.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An internal reference count is held on the buffer pool, incremented every time a new buffer is created from the pool. The reference count is maintained as an int; on LP64 systems this can cause the reference count to overflow if the client creates a large number of wl_shm buffer objects, or if it can coerce the server to create a large number of external references to the buffer storage. With the reference count overflowing, a use-after-free can be constructed on the wl_shm_pool tracking structure, where values may be incremented or decremented; it may also be possible to construct a limited oracle to leak 4 bytes of server-side memory to the attacking client at a time.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00317 · 23.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Published
2022-09-23T15:26Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 SEP 15:26Z
    An internal reference count is held on the buffer pool, incremented every time a new buffer is created from the pool
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