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CVE-2022-46340

Published: 14 December 2022

A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This security flaw occurs becuase the swap handler for the XTestFakeInput request of the XTest extension may corrupt the stack if GenericEvents with lengths larger than 32 bytes are sent through a the XTestFakeInput request. 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. This issue does not affect systems where client and server use the same byte order.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
xorg server is actually the xorg-server package
the xorg package only contains docs
xwayland package contains parts of xorg-server
This is ZDI-CAN-19265

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
xorg-server
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
kinetic
Released (2:21.1.4-2ubuntu1.3)
lunar
Released (2:21.1.5-1ubuntu1)
upstream Needs triage

trusty
Released (2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.11+esm7)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
xenial
Released (2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.12+esm5)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
bionic
Released (2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.13)
focal
Released (2:1.20.13-1ubuntu1~20.04.5)
jammy
Released (2:21.1.3-2ubuntu2.5)
xorg-server-hwe-18.04
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2.2~18.04.9)
trusty Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xorg-server-lts-wily
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

xorg-server-lts-xenial
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

xwayland
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy
Released (2:22.1.1-1ubuntu0.4)
kinetic
Released (2:22.1.3-2ubuntu0.2)
lunar
Released (2:22.1.6-1)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

xorg-server-hwe-16.04
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.1~16.04.6+esm4)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
xorg-server-lts-utopic
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
xenial Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xorg-server-lts-vivid
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
xenial Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H