LookupCol.c in X.Org X through X11R7.7 and libX11 before 1.7.1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. The libX11 XLookupColor request (intended for server-side color lookup) contains a flaw allowing a client to send color-name requests with a name longer than the maximum size allowed by the protocol (and also longer than the maximum packet size for normal-sized packets). The user-controlled data exceeding the maximum size is then interpreted by the server as additional X protocol requests and executed, e.g., to disable X server authorization completely. For example, if the victim encounters malicious terminal control sequences for color codes, then the attacker may be able to take full control of the running graphical session.
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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162737/libX11-Insufficient-Length-Check-Injection.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/52 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commit/8d2e02ae650f00c4a53deb625211a0527126c605 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61db8e7dcb56dc000a5387a88f7a473bacec5ee01b9ff3f55308aacc%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61db8e7dcb56dc000a5387a88f7a473bacec5ee01b9ff3f55308aacc%40%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbf4ce74b0d1fa9810dec50ba3ace0caeea677af7c27a97111c06ccb7%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbf4ce74b0d1fa9810dec50ba3ace0caeea677af7c27a97111c06ccb7%40%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00021.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TEOT4RLB76RVPJQKGGTIKTBIOLHX2NR6/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2021-May/003088.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31535 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-16 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210813-0001/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://unparalleled.eu/blog/2021/20210518-using-xterm-to-navigate-the-huge-color-space/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://unparalleled.eu/publications/2021/advisory-unpar-2021-1.txt cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-31535 cve-icon
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4920 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/18/3 cve-icon cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-05-27T12:26:26

Updated: 2024-08-03T23:03:33.270Z

Reserved: 2021-04-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-31535

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-27T13:15:08.240

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:34:58.383

Link: CVE-2021-31535

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-31535 - Bugzilla