ROS-20230210-02

The X.Org Server vulnerability is related to the fact that after calling free a pointer bound to the buffer did not have the NULL sign, which led to further access to the buffer after its freeing use-after-free in the DeepCopyPointerClasses function used in the X Input extension...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for xorg-x11-server (EulerOS-SA-2023-1376)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

xorg-x11-server: DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege elevation

A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This issue occurs due to a dangling pointer in DeepCopyPointerClasses that can be exploited by ProcXkbSetDeviceInfo and ProcXkbGetDeviceInfo to read and write into freed memory. This can lead to local privilege elevation on systems where the X server runs...

X.Org Server DeepCopyPointerClasses Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of X.Org Server. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the...

xorg-server -- Security issue in the X server

The X.org project reports: CVE-2023-0494/ZDI-CAN-19596: X.Org Server DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free A dangling pointer in DeepCopyPointerClasses can be exploited by ProcXkbSetDeviceInfo and ProcXkbGetDeviceInfo to read/write into freed memory...

tigervnc security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2023:0045 An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severit...

MGASA-2023-0012 Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerability

X.Org Server XkbGetKbdByName use-after-free. CVE-2022-4283 X.Org Server XTestSwapFakeInput stack overflow. CVE-2022-46340 X.Org Server XIPassiveUngrab out-of-bounds access. CVE-2022-46341 X.Org Server XvdiSelectVideoNotify use-after-free. CVE-2022-46342 X.Org Server ScreenSaverSetAttributes...

Important: xorg-x11-server

Issue Overview: A vulnerability classified as critical was found in X.org Server. Affected by this vulnerability is the function GetCountedString of the file xkb/xkb.c. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of th...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: tigervnc security update

An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

xorg-x11-server: XIChangeProperty out-of-bounds access

A vulnerability was found in X.Org. The issue occurs because the handler for the XIChangeProperty request has a length-validation issue, resulting in out-of-bounds memory reads and potential information disclosure. This flaw can lead to local privilege elevation on systems where the X server runs...

X.Org Server ProcXIPassiveUngrabDevice Improper Validation of Array Index Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of X.Org Server. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of...

X.Org Server XvdiSelectVideoNotify Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of X.Org Server. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of...

X.Org Server XTestFakeInput Type Confusion Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of X.Org Server. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of...

X.Org Server XkbCopyNames Double Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of X.Org Server. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of...

X.Org Server ScreenSaverSetAttributes Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of X.Org Server. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of...

X.Org Server ProcXIChangeProperty Numeric Truncation Information Disclosure Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of X.Org Server. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling...

Fedora 36 : xorg-x11-server (2022-613e993500)

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-613e993500 advisory. Security fix for CVE-2022-3550, CVE-2022-3551 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (SUSE-SU-2022:4484-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4484-1 advisory. - CVE-2022-46340: Server XTestSwapFakeInput stack overflow bsc1205874 - CVE-2022-46341: Server XIPassiveUngrabDevice out-of-bounds...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-46344

A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This security flaw occurs because the handler for the XIChangeProperty request has a length-validation issues, resulting in out-of-bounds memory reads and potential information disclosure. This issue can lead to local privileges elevation on systems where the X...

PT-2022-7135 · X.Org +9 · X.Org Server +9

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: X.Org Server affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the XTestSwapFakeInput function of the X.Org Server, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to access confidential data, compromise it...