CVE-2021-3782
MEDIUMwayland < 1.20.91 - Use-After-Free via wl_shm Buffer Reference Count Overflow
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/224
Scores
CVSS v3
6.6
EPSS
0.0029
EPSS Percentile
20.9%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-190
Status
published
Products (1)
wayland/wayland
< 1.20.91
Published
Sep 23, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026