CVE-2021-3782
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.6 Medium
- Published
- Sep 23, 2022
- Updated
- May 22, 2025
- Reserved
- Sep 9, 2021
Description
An internal reference count is held on the buffer pool, incremented every time a new buffer is created from the pool. The reference count is maintained as an int; on LP64 systems this can cause the reference count to overflow if the client creates a large number of wl_shm buffer objects, or if it can coerce the server to create a large number of external references to the buffer storage. With the reference count overflowing, a use-after-free can be constructed on the wl_shm_pool tracking structure, where values may be incremented or decremented; it may also be possible to construct a limited oracle to leak 4 bytes of server-side memory to the attacking client at a time.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.6 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-190 (CWE-190|CWE-911)->CWE-416
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
waylandn/a |
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References
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