🛡️ CVE-2022-46343
🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This security flaw occurs because the handler for the ScreenSaverSetAttributes request may write to memory after it has been freed. This issue can lead to local privileges elevation on systems where the X server is running privileged and remote code execution for ssh X forwarding sessions.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-12-14
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-04-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
fedora
x-server

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151758
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151758

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