CVE-2020-14344

CVSS V2 Medium 4.6 CVSS V3 Medium 6.7
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-14344
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2020-08-05T14:15:12
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-11-29T02:19:17
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-190 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/190.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:libx11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.6.10
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.6
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • HIGH
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.7
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 0.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-July/003050.html Mailing List Patch Vendor Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/31/1 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14344 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00015.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00031.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XY4H2SIEF2362AMNX5ZKWAELGU7LKFJB/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-18
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-1/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4VDDSAYV7XGNRCXE7HCU23645MG74OFF/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4487-2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7AVXCQOSCAPKYYHFIJAZ6E2C7LJBTLXF/
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14344
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-14344
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:31:14 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 20:36:08 2020-08-05T14:15Z 2020-08-05T14:15:12 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 20:36:08 2022-11-29T02:19:17 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 20:36:08 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated