Vulnerability CVE-2020-14363


Published: 2020-09-11

Description:
An integer overflow vulnerability leading to a double-free was found in libX11. This flaw allows a local privileged attacker to cause an application compiled with libX11 to crash, or in some cases, result in arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity as well as system availability.

Type:

CWE-190

(Integer Overflow or Wraparound)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
X.org -> Libx11 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14363
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-August/003056.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-2/

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