CVE-2021-3782 (GCVE-0-2021-3782)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-23 15:26 – Updated: 2025-05-22 18:21
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-190 - (CWE-190|CWE-911)->CWE-416
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a wayland Affected: wayland 1.20.91
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