A flaw was found in xorg-x11-server before 1.20.10. A heap-buffer overflow in XkbSetDeviceInfo may lead to a privilege escalation vulnerability. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1887276 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-December/003066.html Mailing List Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2020-12-15T16:52:38

Updated: 2020-12-15T16:52:38

Reserved: 2020-09-16T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-25712

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-12-15T17:15:12.800

Modified: 2020-12-16T21:42:56.207


Link: CVE-2020-25712

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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CWE