CVE-2023-5380 Information

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in the xorg-x11-server. An X server crash may occur in a very specific and legacy configuration (a multi-screen setup with multiple protocol screens also known as Zaphod mode) if the pointer is warped from within a window on one screen to the root window of the other screen and if the original window is destroyed followed by another window being destroyed.

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2244736 https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.html https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5380 https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5534