Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0123: xorg-x11-server (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0123)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236381

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0123 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2024-31080:
A heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability was found in the X.org server's ProcXIGetSelectedEvents() function. This issue occurs when byte-swapped length values are used in replies, potentially leading to memory leakage and segmentation faults, particularly when triggered by a client with a different endianness. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to cause the X server to read heap memory values and then transmit them back to the client until encountering an unmapped page, resulting in a crash. Despite the attacker's inability to control the specific memory copied into the replies, the small length values typically stored in a 32-bit integer can result in significant attempted out-of-bounds reads.

CVE-2024-31081:
A heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability was found in the X.org server's ProcXIPassiveGrabDevice() function. This issue occurs when byte-swapped length values are used in replies, potentially leading to memory leakage and segmentation faults, particularly when triggered by a client with a different endianness. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to cause the X server to read heap memory values and then transmit them back to the client until encountering an unmapped page, resulting in a crash. Despite the attacker's inability to control the specific memory copied into the replies, the small length values typically stored in a 32-bit integer can result in significant attempted out-of-bounds reads.

CVE-2024-31083:
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the ProcRenderAddGlyphs() function of Xorg servers. This issue occurs when AllocateGlyph() is called to store new glyphs sent by the client to the X server, potentially resulting in multiple entries pointing to the same non-refcounted glyphs. Consequently, ProcRenderAddGlyphs() may free a glyph, leading to a use-after-free scenario when the same glyph pointer is subsequently accessed. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system by sending a specially crafted request.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20240123.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 236381

File Name: alinux3_sa_2024-0123.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-31081

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-31083

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-source, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-common, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-xnest, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-xnest-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-xdmx, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-xephyr-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-xdmx-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-xorg, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-xvfb, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-xorg-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-xephyr, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xorg-x11-server-xvfb-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-31080, CVE-2024-31081, CVE-2024-31083