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2015 Feb 10
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X.Org Security Advisory: CVE-2015-0255: Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers
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The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string
lengths in the request data. 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.
The data length is at least up to 64k, it is possible to obtain more
data by chaining strings, each string length is then determined by
whatever happens to be in that 16-bit region of memory.
A similarly crafted request can likely cause the X server to crash.
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