Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting xorg-server package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGSERVER-3008057
  • published14 Jul 2022
  • disclosed12 Jul 2022
  • creditJan-Niklas Sohn

Introduced: 12 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-2320  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution due to improper handling of user-supplied data, which allows out-of-bounds writes from the ProcXkbSetDeviceInfo request handler of the Xkb extension. A low-privileged user is then able to execute code as root.

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