vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-3C7BA82A-D3FB-11EA-9ABA-0C9D925BBBC0 (CVE-2020-14347): xorg-server -- Pixel Data Uninitialized Memory Information Disclosure
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Jul 31, 2020 | Aug 2, 2020 | Oct 20, 2020 |
Description
Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.
From VID-3C7BA82A-D3FB-11EA-9ABA-0C9D925BBBC0:
The X.org project reports:
Allocation for pixmap data in AllocatePixmap() does not initialize
the memory in xserver, it leads to leak uninitialize heap memory to
clients. When the X server runs with elevated privileges.
This flaw can lead to ASLR bypass, which when combined with other
flaws (known/unknown) could lead to lead to privilege elevation in
the client.
Solution(s)
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