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CVE-2021-26956

Published: Feb 09, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26956
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

An issue was discovered in the xcb crate through 2021-02-04 for Rust. It has a soundness violation because bytes from an X server can be interpreted as any data type returned by xcb::xproto::GetPropertyReply::value.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xcb Xcb_project * 2021-02-04 (including)
Rust-xcb Ubuntu groovy *
Rust-xcb Ubuntu hirsute *
Rust-xcb Ubuntu impish *
Rust-xcb Ubuntu kinetic *
Rust-xcb Ubuntu lunar *
Rust-xcb Ubuntu mantic *
Rust-xcb Ubuntu trusty *

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