CVE-2023-6377

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5576

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0003/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-30

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-December/003435.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LJDFWDB7EQVZA45XDP7L5WRSRWS6RVRR/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IFHV5KCQ2SVOD4QMCPZ5HC6YL44L7YJD/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7PP47YXKM5ETLCYEF6473R3VFCJ6QT2S/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6R63Z6GIWM3YUNZRCGFODUXLW3GY2HD6/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00013.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00008.html

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/0c1a93d319558fe3ab2d94f51d174b4f93810afd

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253291

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6377

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2170

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2169

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0020

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0018

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0017

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0016

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0015

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0014

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0010

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0009

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0006

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7886

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/13/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3