From 774260dbae1fa505cd2848c786baed9a8db5179d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 15:55:54 +1000
Subject: [PATCH xserver 7/7] xkb: reset the radio_groups pointer to NULL after
freeing it
Unlike other elements of the keymap, this pointer was freed but not
reset. On a subsequent XkbGetKbdByName request, the server may access
already freed memory.
CVE-2022-46283, ZDI-CAN-19530
This vulnerability was discovered by:
Jan-Niklas Sohn working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Acked-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
---
xkb/xkbUtils.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/xkb/xkbUtils.c b/xkb/xkbUtils.c
index dd089c2046..3f5791a183 100644
--- a/xkb/xkbUtils.c
+++ b/xkb/xkbUtils.c
@@ -1326,6 +1326,7 @@ _XkbCopyNames(XkbDescPtr src, XkbDescPtr dst)
}
else {
free(dst->names->radio_groups);
+ dst->names->radio_groups = NULL;
}
dst->names->num_rg = src->names->num_rg;
--
2.38.1