CVE-2022-46340

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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.

8.8 /10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46340 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151755 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5NELB7YDWRABYYBG4UPTHRBDTKJRV5M2/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DXDF2O5PPLE3SVAJJYUOSAD5QZ4TWQ2G/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWTH3SNJ3GKYDSN7I3QDGWYEPSMWU6EP/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5304 Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

AND
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:1.20.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
OR cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
History

30 May 2023, 06:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (MISC) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30 -

01 Mar 2023, 01:51

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5NELB7YDWRABYYBG4UPTHRBDTKJRV5M2/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2022-721a78b7e5', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2022-dd3eb7e0a8', 'tags': [], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWTH3SNJ3GKYDSN7I3QDGWYEPSMWU6EP/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2022-3d88188071', 'tags': [], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DXDF2O5PPLE3SVAJJYUOSAD5QZ4TWQ2G/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2022-c3a65f7c65', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • (MISC) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5NELB7YDWRABYYBG4UPTHRBDTKJRV5M2/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
  • (MISC) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWTH3SNJ3GKYDSN7I3QDGWYEPSMWU6EP/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
  • (MISC) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
  • (MISC) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DXDF2O5PPLE3SVAJJYUOSAD5QZ4TWQ2G/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5304 - (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5304 - Third Party Advisory

26 Dec 2022, 04:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/ -

21 Dec 2022, 04:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWTH3SNJ3GKYDSN7I3QDGWYEPSMWU6EP/ -
  • (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5304 -

20 Dec 2022, 13:27

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:a:x:x.org_x11:1.20.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:1.20.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

19 Dec 2022, 17:48

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE
Information

Published : 2022-12-14 21:15

Updated : 2024-02-04 23:14

NVD link : CVE-2022-46340

Mitre link : CVE-2022-46340

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-46340

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Products Affected

redhat

  • enterprise_linux

debian

  • debian_linux

x.org

  • x_server

fedoraproject

  • fedora
CWE
CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write