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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-14344: libX11 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-14344: libX11 security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/05/2020
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/20/2021
Modified
01/20/2021

Description

An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in The X Input Method (XIM) client was implemented in libX11 before version 1.6.10. As per upstream this is security relevant when setuid programs call XIM client functions while running with elevated privileges. No such programs are shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libx11
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libx11-common
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libx11-devel

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