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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2023· Updated Feb 24, 2025

CVE-2023-0494

CVE-2023-0494

Description

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.

Affected products

49

Patches

0

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Vulnerability mechanics

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