QID 241495

Date Published: 2023-05-17

QID 241495: Red Hat Update for wayland security (RHSA-2023:2786)

Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a c library implementation of that protocol.
The compositor can be a standalone display server running on linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an x application, or a wayland client itself.
The clients can be traditional applications, x servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers...Security Fix(es):

wayland: libwayland-server wl_shm reference-count overflow (cve-2021-3782). <H2></H2>

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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.

Solution

Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2023:2786 for updates and patch information.

Vendor References

RHSA-2023:2786 - access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2786

CVEs related to QID 241495

CVE-2021-3782 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
RHSA-2023:2786	Red Hat Enterprise Linux		access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2786

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