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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2023-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-02-24T17:43:00.816Z
Reserved: 2023-01-25T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2023-0494

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:10:56.201Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2023-03-27T21:15:10.193
Modified: 2025-02-24T18:15:16.550
Link: CVE-2023-0494
