CVE-2022-46343 (GCVE-0-2022-46343)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-14 00:00
Modified
2025-04-22 15:14
CWE
  • use-after-free
Summary
A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This security flaw occurs because the handler for the ScreenSaverSetAttributes request may write to memory after it has been freed. This issue can lead to local privileges elevation on systems where the X server is running privileged and remote code execution for ssh X forwarding sessions.
References
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46343 Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151758 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5NELB7YDWRABYYBG4UPTHRBDTKJRV5M2/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DXDF2O5PPLE3SVAJJYUOSAD5QZ4TWQ2G/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30
secalert@redhat.com https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5304 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46343 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151758 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5NELB7YDWRABYYBG4UPTHRBDTKJRV5M2/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DXDF2O5PPLE3SVAJJYUOSAD5QZ4TWQ2G/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5304 Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a xorg-x11-server Version: xorg-x11-server-1.20.4
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