vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3782: Moderate: wayland security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2023-2786)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Sep 23, 2022
Added
May 23, 2023
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-libwayland-clientalma-upgrade-libwayland-cursoralma-upgrade-libwayland-eglalma-upgrade-libwayland-serveralma-upgrade-wayland-devel
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