An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Aug 5, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
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.
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