vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-2320: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 1, 2022
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Oct 2, 2024

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xorg-server
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