CVE-2014-8091

X.Org X Window System (también conocido como X11 and X) X11R5 y X.Org Server (también conocido como xserver y xorg-server) anterior a 1.16.3, cuando utiliza las credenciales de autenticación SUN-DES-1 (Secure RPC), no compreuba el valor de retorno de una llamada malloc, lo que permite a atacantes remotos causar una denegación de servicio (referencia a puntero nulo y caída de servidor) a través de una solicitud de conexión manipulada.

It was found that the X.Org server did not properly handle SUN-DES-1 (Secure RPC) authentication credentials. A malicious, unauthenticated client could use this flaw to crash the X.Org server by submitting a specially crafted authentication request.

Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in the X.org X server, which may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service. Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request, where the server trusts the client to send valid string lengths. A malicious client with string lengths exceeding the request length can cause the server to copy adjacent memory data into the XKB structs. This data is then available to the client via the XkbGetGeometry request. This can lead to information disclosure issues, as well as possibly a denial of service if a similar request can cause the server to crash.