CVE-2024-31081CWE-126

Xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overread/data leakage in procxipassivegrabdevice

High · published April 4, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability was found in the X.org server's ProcXIPassiveGrabDevice() function. This issue occurs when byte-swapped length values are used in replies, potentially leading to memory leakage and segmentation faults, particularly when triggered by a client with a different endianness. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to cause the X server to read heap memory values and then transmit them back to the client until encountering an unmapped page, resulting in a crash. Despite the attacker's inability to control the specific memory copied into the replies, the small length values typically stored in a 32-bit integer can result in significant attempted out-of-bounds reads.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00517 · 43.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-126 · Buffer Over-read
Published
2024-04-04T13:48Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 APR 13:48Z
    Xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overread/data leakage in procxipassivegrabdevice
    cvelistv5