Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xorg-server package, versions [,7.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGSERVER-2635951
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Feb 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Feb 2014

CVE-2012-0064  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xorg-server to version 7.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass xkeyboard-config before 2.5 in X.Org before 7.6 enables certain XKB debugging functions by default, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an X screen lock via keyboard combinations that break the input grab.

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