CVE-2023-6377 Information

Description

A flaw was found in xorg-server. Querying or changing XKB button actions such as moving from a touchpad to a mouse can result in out-of-bounds memory reads and writes. This may allow local privilege escalation or possible remote code execution in cases where X11 forwarding is involved.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6377 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253291 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/0c1a93d319558fe3ab2d94f51d174b4f93810afd https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-December/003435.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00008.html https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5576 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/13/1