RHSA-2024:2973 — Security Advisory

An update for libX11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libX11 packages contain the core X11 protocol client library.

Security Fix(es):

• libX11: out-of-bounds memory access in _XkbReadKeySyms() (CVE-2023-43785)

• libX11: stack exhaustion from infinite recursion in PutSubImage() (CVE-2023-43786)

• libX11: integer overflow in XCreateImage() leading to a heap overflow (CVE-2023-43787)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.