By providing a modified bitmap to the X.Org Server, a heap-based buffer overflow privilege escalation can occur.
Maybe we should stop writing security critical software in memory unsafe languages. I now this vulnerability was introduced a long time ago, but given that major Wayland compositors are still written in C, something like this isn’t too unlikely to happen again.
The error message is very detailed and there is nothing to add to it.
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