vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-49737: xorg-server -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Mar 16, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In X.Org X server 20.11 through 21.1.16, when a client application uses easystroke for mouse gestures, the main thread modifies various data structures used by the input thread without acquiring a lock, aka a race condition. In particular, AttachDevice in dix/devices.c does not acquire an input lock.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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