vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-3138: Medium priority package update for libX11

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 15, 2023
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libx11amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libx11-commonamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libx11-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libx11-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libx11-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libx11-xcbamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libx11-xcb-debuginfo
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