Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-5380 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- 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
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SN6KV4XGQJRVAOSM5C3CWMVAXO53COIP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3RK66CXMXO3PCPDU3GDY5FK4UYHUXQJT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AKKIE626TZOOPD533EYN47J4RFNHZVOP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2WS5E7H4A5J3U5YBCTMRPQVGWK5LVH7D/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HO2Q2NP6R62ZRQQG3XQ4AXUT7J2EKKKY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TJXNI4BXURC2BKPNAHFJK3C5ZETB7PER/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7428
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0004/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-30