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Unchecked access to font glyph info

Moderate
metalefty published GHSA-2hjx-rm4f-r9hw Sep 27, 2023

Package

xrdp

Affected versions

All

Patched versions

0.9.23.1

Description

Summary

Out-of-bounds read and potential out-od-bounds write in access to font glyphs.

Details

Access to the font glyphs in xrdp_painter.c is not bounds-checked . Since some of this data is controllable by the user, this can result in an out-of-bounds read within the xrdp executable.

Impact

The vulnerability allows an out-of-bounds read within a potentially privileged process. On non-Debian platforms, xrdp runs as root.

Potentially an out-of-bounds write can follow the out-of-bounds read.

There is no denial-of-service impact, providing xrdp is running in forking mode.

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2023-42822

Weaknesses

No CWEs