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Medium ALAS2-2023-2103 1 CVE

Moderate: wayland security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 21, 2023 · Updated Jun 29, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3782: An internal reference count is held on the buffer pool, incremented every time a new buffer is created from the pool. The reference count is maintained as an int; on LP64 systems this can cause the reference count to overflow if the client creates a large number of wl_shm buffer objects, or if it can coerce the server to create a large number of external references to the buffer storage. With the reference count overflowing, a use-after-free can be constructed on the wl_shm_pool tracking structure, where values may be incremented or decremented; it may also be possible to construct a limited oracle to leak 4 bytes of server-side memory to the attacking client at a time.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libwayland-client 0:1.17.0-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 libwayland-cursor 0:1.17.0-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 libwayland-egl 0:1.17.0-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 libwayland-server 0:1.17.0-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 wayland-debuginfo 0:1.17.0-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 wayland-devel 0:1.17.0-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 wayland-doc 0:1.17.0-1.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3782.html