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CVE-2022-46344

Published: Dec 14, 2022

Modified: Feb 13, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

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 server is running privileged and remote code execution for ssh X forwarding sessions.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	xorg-x11-server	affected `xorg-x11-server-1.20.4`

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46344

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151760

FEDORA-2022-c3a65f7c65

vendor-advisory

FEDORA-2022-721a78b7e5

vendor-advisory

vendor-advisory

FEDORA-2022-dd3eb7e0a8

vendor-advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/13/1

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