ALAS-2024-1900

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-6377   CVE-2023-6478  

A flaw was found in xorg-server. Querying or changing XKB button actions such as moving from a touchpad to a mouse can result in out-of-bounds memory reads and writes. This may allow local privilege escalation or possible remote code execution in cases where X11 forwarding is involved. (CVE-2023-6377) A flaw was found in xorg-server. A specially crafted request to RRChangeProviderProperty or RRChangeOutputProperty can trigger an integer overflow which may lead to a disclosure of sensitive information. (CVE-2023-6478)

ALAS-2024-1900


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-1900
Advisory Release Date: 2024-01-03 22:37 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-01-08 21:23 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in xorg-server. Querying or changing XKB button actions such as moving from a touchpad to a mouse can result in out-of-bounds memory reads and writes. This may allow local privilege escalation or possible remote code execution in cases where X11 forwarding is involved. (CVE-2023-6377)

A flaw was found in xorg-server. A specially crafted request to RRChangeProviderProperty or RRChangeOutputProperty can trigger an integer overflow which may lead to a disclosure of sensitive information. (CVE-2023-6478)


Affected Packages:

xorg-x11-server


Issue Correction:
"Run yum update xorg-x11-server to update your system.
"

New Packages:
i686:
    xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.i686
    xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.i686
    xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.i686
    xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.i686
    xorg-x11-server-devel-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.i686
    xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.i686
    xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.i686
    xorg-x11-server-common-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    xorg-x11-server-source-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.noarch

src:
    xorg-x11-server-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.x86_64
    xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.x86_64
    xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.x86_64
    xorg-x11-server-devel-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.x86_64
    xorg-x11-server-common-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.x86_64
    xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.x86_64
    xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.x86_64
    xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.17.4-18.54.amzn1.x86_64