CVE-2023-0494

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0494
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-0494.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-0494
Downstream
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Published
2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-05-15T11:53:22.693502735Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-416"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/0xxx/CVE-2023-0494.json",
    "cna_assigner": "redhat"
}
References

Affected packages