Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : X.Org X Server vulnerability (USN-5986-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5986-1 advisory. Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use these...

xorg-server -- Overlay Window Use-After-Free

The X.Org project reports: ZDI-CAN-19866/CVE-2023-1393: X.Org Server Overlay Window Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability If a client explicitly destroys the compositor overlay window aka COW, the Xserver would leave a dangling pointer to that window in the CompScreen structure,...

CVE-2023-0494

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0494

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

CVE-2023-0494

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...

CVE-2023-0494

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...

CVE-2023-0494

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...

CVE-2023-0494

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...

CVE-2023-0494

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...

CVE-2023-0494

The CVE-2023-0494 entry concerns X.Org X server: a dangling pointer in DeepCopyPointerClasses can be exploited by ProcXkbSetDeviceInfo() and ProcXkbGetDeviceInfo() to read/write freed memory, enabling local privilege elevation on privileged X servers and remote code execution for SSH X forwarding...

Important: xorg-x11-server

Issue Overview: 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...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for xorg-x11-server (EulerOS-SA-2023-1569)

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...

EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : xorg-x11-server (EulerOS-SA-2023-1544)

According to the versions of the xorg-x11-server package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This security flaw occurs because the XkbCopyNames function left a dangling pointer to freed memory,...

SUSE SLED15: xorg-x11-server / xorg-x11-server-extra / xorg-x11-server-sdk / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:0683-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0683-1 advisory. - Fixed a regression introduced with security update for CVE-2022-46340 bsc1205874. Tenable has extracted...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (SUSE-SU-2023:0656-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0656-1 advisory. - Fixed a regression introduced with security update for CVE-2022-46340 bsc1205874. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : xwayland (SUSE-SU-2023:0654-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0654-1 advisory. - Fixed a regression introduced with security update for CVE-2022-46340 bsc1205874. Tenable has extracted...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (SUSE-SU-2023:0653-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2023:0653-1 advisory. - Fixed a regression introduced with security update for CVE-2022-46340 bsc1205874. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (SUSE-SU-2023:0657-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0657-1 advisory. - Fixed a regression introduced with security update for CVE-2022-46340 bsc1205874. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1186-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 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...