CVE-2020-25712

Published: 01 December 2020

A flaw was found in xorg-x11-server before 1.20.10. A heap-buffer overflow in XkbSetDeviceInfo may lead to a privilege escalation vulnerability. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 7.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
xorg Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Not vulnerable


	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist
xorg-hwe-16.04 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Not vulnerable


	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist
xorg-hwe-18.04 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Not vulnerable


	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist
xorg-server Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage


	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Released (2:1.20.9-2ubuntu1.1)
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Released (2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2.6)
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Released (2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.8)
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Released (2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.11)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Released (2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.11+esm3)
xorg-server-hwe-16.04 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage


	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Released (2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.1~16.04.5)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist
xorg-server-hwe-18.04 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage


	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Released (2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2.2~18.04.4)
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist
xorg-server-lts-utopic Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage


	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist
xorg-server-lts-vivid Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage


	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist
xorg-server-lts-wily Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage


	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist
xorg-server-lts-xenial Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage


	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	xorg server is actually the xorg-server package the xorg package only contains docs
amurray	ZDI-CAN-11839
mdeslaur	cd5547444de39e3ebde1e8b88342fa8e0113040b

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