CVE-2022-3550 (GCVE-0-2022-3550)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-17 00:00
Modified
2025-04-15 13:43
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Memory Corruption -> CWE-120 Buffer Overflow
Summary
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in X.org Server. Affected by this vulnerability is the function _GetCountedString of the file xkb/xkb.c. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211051.
References
cna@vuldb.com https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=11beef0b7f1ed290348e45618e5fa0d2bffcb72e Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cna@vuldb.com https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cna@vuldb.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3QTPFVGYTOY4EWTJEBH3YGDTTU57FZAK/
cna@vuldb.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IOEDFBYPSE3EMVHTEFCVEJD2R2Y5F2A5/
cna@vuldb.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OXZZ6JBDBVBYPDI6DUTY6N36GNW37YHK/
cna@vuldb.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X7W3NXSYK4P3XCZQBI3U6UWP4DPZIMRZ/
cna@vuldb.com https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30
cna@vuldb.com https://vuldb.com/?id.211051 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cna@vuldb.com https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5278 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=11beef0b7f1ed290348e45618e5fa0d2bffcb72e Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3QTPFVGYTOY4EWTJEBH3YGDTTU57FZAK/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IOEDFBYPSE3EMVHTEFCVEJD2R2Y5F2A5/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OXZZ6JBDBVBYPDI6DUTY6N36GNW37YHK/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X7W3NXSYK4P3XCZQBI3U6UWP4DPZIMRZ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://vuldb.com/?id.211051 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5278 Third Party Advisory
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