CVE-2021-4008

NameCVE-2021-4008
DescriptionA flaw was found in xorg-x11-server in versions before 21.1.2 and before 1.20.14. An out-of-bounds access can occur in the SProcRenderCompositeGlyphs function. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2869-1, DSA-5027-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
xorg-server (PTS)bullseye2:1.20.11-1+deb11u13fixed
bullseye (security)2:1.20.11-1+deb11u14fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)2:21.1.7-3+deb12u8fixed
trixie2:21.1.14-1fixed
sid2:21.1.14-2fixed
xwayland (PTS)bookworm2:22.1.9-1fixed
sid, trixie2:24.1.4-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
xorg-serversourcestretch2:1.19.2-1+deb9u9DLA-2869-1
xorg-serversourcebuster2:1.20.4-1+deb10u4DSA-5027-1
xorg-serversourcebullseye2:1.20.11-1+deb11u1DSA-5027-1
xorg-serversource(unstable)2:1.20.13-3
xwaylandsource(unstable)2:21.1.4-1

Notes

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2021-December/003122.html
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/ebce7e2d80e7c80e1dda60f2f0bc886f1106ba60

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