CVE-2023-0494
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2023-03-27T00:00:00
State: PUBLISHED
descriptions: value: 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 privileged and remote code execution for ssh X forwarding sessions.
affected: vendor: n/a
product: xorg-x11-server
versions: version: xorg-server 21.1.7
status: affected
problemTypes: descriptions: type: CWE
description: CWE-416
cweId: CWE-416