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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
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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

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
XcbXcb_project*2021-02-04 (including)
Rust-xcbUbuntuesm-apps/jammy*
Rust-xcbUbuntugroovy*
Rust-xcbUbuntuhirsute*
Rust-xcbUbuntuimpish*
Rust-xcbUbuntujammy*
Rust-xcbUbuntukinetic*
Rust-xcbUbuntulunar*
Rust-xcbUbuntumantic*
Rust-xcbUbuntuoracular*
Rust-xcbUbuntutrusty*
Rust-xcbUbuntuupstream*

References

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