CVE-2021-31535

LookupCol.c in X.Org X through X11R7.7 and libX11 before 1.7.1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. The libX11 XLookupColor request (intended for server-side color lookup) contains a flaw allowing a client to send color-name requests with a name longer than the maximum size allowed by the protocol (and also longer than the maximum packet size for normal-sized packets). The user-controlled data exceeding the maximum size is then interpreted by the server as additional X protocol requests and executed, e.g., to disable X server authorization completely. For example, if the victim encounters malicious terminal control sequences for color codes, then the attacker may be able to take full control of the running graphical session.
References
Link Resource
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162737/libX11-Insufficient-Length-Check-Injection.html Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/52 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commit/8d2e02ae650f00c4a53deb625211a0527126c605 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61db8e7dcb56dc000a5387a88f7a473bacec5ee01b9ff3f55308aacc%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61db8e7dcb56dc000a5387a88f7a473bacec5ee01b9ff3f55308aacc%40%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbf4ce74b0d1fa9810dec50ba3ace0caeea677af7c27a97111c06ccb7%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbf4ce74b0d1fa9810dec50ba3ace0caeea677af7c27a97111c06ccb7%40%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TEOT4RLB76RVPJQKGGTIKTBIOLHX2NR6/
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/ Third Party Advisory
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2021-May/003088.html Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-16 Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210813-0001/ Third Party Advisory
https://unparalleled.eu/blog/2021/20210518-using-xterm-to-navigate-the-huge-color-space/ Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://unparalleled.eu/publications/2021/advisory-unpar-2021-1.txt Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4920 Third Party Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/3 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:x.org:libx11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:x.org:x_window_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

23 Sep 2021, 12:45

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References (CONFIRM) https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210813-0001/ - (CONFIRM) https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210813-0001/ - Third Party Advisory
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TEOT4RLB76RVPJQKGGTIKTBIOLHX2NR6/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TEOT4RLB76RVPJQKGGTIKTBIOLHX2NR6/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61db8e7dcb56dc000a5387a88f7a473bacec5ee01b9ff3f55308aacc@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E - (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61db8e7dcb56dc000a5387a88f7a473bacec5ee01b9ff3f55308aacc@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61db8e7dcb56dc000a5387a88f7a473bacec5ee01b9ff3f55308aacc@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E - (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61db8e7dcb56dc000a5387a88f7a473bacec5ee01b9ff3f55308aacc@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbf4ce74b0d1fa9810dec50ba3ace0caeea677af7c27a97111c06ccb7@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E - (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbf4ce74b0d1fa9810dec50ba3ace0caeea677af7c27a97111c06ccb7@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbf4ce74b0d1fa9810dec50ba3ace0caeea677af7c27a97111c06ccb7@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E - (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbf4ce74b0d1fa9810dec50ba3ace0caeea677af7c27a97111c06ccb7@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

02 Sep 2021, 04:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbf4ce74b0d1fa9810dec50ba3ace0caeea677af7c27a97111c06ccb7@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E -
  • (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbf4ce74b0d1fa9810dec50ba3ace0caeea677af7c27a97111c06ccb7@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E -

31 Aug 2021, 22:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61db8e7dcb56dc000a5387a88f7a473bacec5ee01b9ff3f55308aacc@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E -
  • (MLIST) https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61db8e7dcb56dc000a5387a88f7a473bacec5ee01b9ff3f55308aacc@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E -

22 Aug 2021, 03:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TEOT4RLB76RVPJQKGGTIKTBIOLHX2NR6/ -
  • (CONFIRM) https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210813-0001/ -

10 Jun 2021, 13:46

Type Values Removed Values Added
References (MISC) https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/2 - (MISC) https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/2 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4920 - (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4920 - Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://unparalleled.eu/blog/2021/20210518-using-xterm-to-navigate-the-huge-color-space/ - (MISC) https://unparalleled.eu/blog/2021/20210518-using-xterm-to-navigate-the-huge-color-space/ - Exploit, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commit/8d2e02ae650f00c4a53deb625211a0527126c605 - (MISC) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commit/8d2e02ae650f00c4a53deb625211a0527126c605 - Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/3 - (MISC) https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/3 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2021-May/003088.html - (MISC) https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2021-May/003088.html - Vendor Advisory
References (MISC) https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/ - (MISC) https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/ - Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162737/libX11-Insufficient-Length-Check-Injection.html - (MISC) http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162737/libX11-Insufficient-Length-Check-Injection.html - Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
References (MLIST) http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/2 - (MLIST) http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/2 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00021.html - (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00021.html - Third Party Advisory
References (FULLDISC) http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/52 - (FULLDISC) http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/52 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-16 - (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-16 - Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://unparalleled.eu/publications/2021/advisory-unpar-2021-1.txt - (MISC) https://unparalleled.eu/publications/2021/advisory-unpar-2021-1.txt - Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 7.5
v3 : 9.8
CPE cpe:2.3:a:x.org:libx11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:x.org:x_window_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CWE CWE-120

07 Jun 2021, 15:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4920 -
  • (MISC) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commit/8d2e02ae650f00c4a53deb625211a0527126c605 -
  • (MISC) https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2021-May/003088.html -
  • (MLIST) http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/2 -
  • (MISC) http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162737/libX11-Insufficient-Length-Check-Injection.html -
  • (FULLDISC) http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/52 -
  • (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-16 -
  • (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00021.html -

27 May 2021, 13:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-05-27 13:15

Updated : 2024-02-04 21:47


NVD link : CVE-2021-31535

Mitre link : CVE-2021-31535

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-31535


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Products Affected

x.org

  • x_window_system
  • libx11

fedoraproject

  • fedora
CWE
CWE-120

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')