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CVE-2021-26957

Out of bounds read in xcb

Impact

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
rustxcb< 1.0.01.0.0

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Xcb ProjectXcb
through 2021-02-04

Weakness classification

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