Security Advisory

CVE-2022-2320

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-09-01 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-03 00:32:09
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.