Vulnerability Details CVE-2022-46343
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.01
EPSS Ranking 75.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.8
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46343
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151758
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5NELB7YDWRABYYBG4UPTHRBDTKJRV5M2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DXDF2O5PPLE3SVAJJYUOSAD5QZ4TWQ2G/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5304
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46343
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151758
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5NELB7YDWRABYYBG4UPTHRBDTKJRV5M2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DXDF2O5PPLE3SVAJJYUOSAD5QZ4TWQ2G/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5304
Products affected by CVE-2022-46343
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cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:1.20.4
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0