CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2022-2320
High (7.8) in x.org x server. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in the Xorg-x11-server. The specific flaw exists within the handling of ProcXkbSetDeviceInfo requests. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a memory access past the end of an allocated buffer. This flaw allows an attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of root.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 50% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- x.org:x_server
References
- https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xserver/commit/dd8caf39e9e15d8f302e54045dd08d8ebf1025dc
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/938
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/939
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2022-July/003192.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-30