vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-3782: Security patch for wayland (ALAS-2023-2103)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Sep 23, 2022
Added
Jul 4, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 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.

Solution(s)

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