CVE-2021-26957

CRITICAL

Xcb < 2021-02-04 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in the xcb crate through 2021-02-04 for Rust. It has a soundness violation because there is an out-of-bounds read in xcb::xproto::change_property(), as demonstrated by a format=32 T=u8 situation where out-of-bounds bytes are sent to an X server.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0019.html

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0050
EPSS Percentile 66.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (2)
crates.io/xcb 0 - 1.0.0crates.io
xcb_project/xcb < 2021-02-04
Published Feb 09, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026