CVE-2024-9632

A flaw was found in the X.org server. Due to improperly tracked allocation size in _XkbSetCompatMap, a local attacker may be able to trigger a buffer overflow condition via a specially crafted payload, leading to denial of service or local privilege escalation in distributions where the X.org server is run with root privileges.

Database specific

{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/9xxx/CVE-2024-9632.json",
    "cna_assigner": "redhat",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-122"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver

Events

Introduced

69e99f58818201c32f000f3d65f8df071dc47e98

Fixed

b25ad9b8f0ebcc3ebe09ce9991410c60f3a8b2ce

Database specific

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.1.1"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "21.1.14"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-9632.json"