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Re: CVE Request: libX11: buffer overflow in MakeBigReq macro


From: cve-assign () mitre org
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 03:09:30 -0400 (EDT)

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The MakeBigReq macro in libX11 contained a 4-byte buffer overflow:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56508

Fixed by the following commit in libX11 1.5.99.901:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=39547d600a13713e15429f49768e54c3173c828d

(for the "#ifdef LONG64")
- memmove(((char *)req) + 8, ((char *)req) + 4, _BRlen << 2); \
+ memmove(((char *)req) + 8, ((char *)req) + 4, (_BRlen - 1) << 2); \

(for the "else")
- memmove(((char *)req) + 8, ((char *)req) + 4, _BRlen << 2); \
+ memmove(((char *)req) + 8, ((char *)req) + 4, (_BRlen - 1) << 2); \

Use CVE-2013-7439.

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