CVE-2022-4283

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This security flaw occurs because the XkbCopyNames function left a dangling pointer to freed memory, resulting in out-of-bounds memory access on subsequent XkbGetKbdByName requests.. 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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 11.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 36, 37
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
xorg-x11-server: 1.20.4

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4283
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151761
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5NELB7YDWRABYYBG4UPTHRBDTKJRV5M2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DXDF2O5PPLE3SVAJJYUOSAD5QZ4TWQ2G/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5304
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4283
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151761
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5NELB7YDWRABYYBG4UPTHRBDTKJRV5M2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DXDF2O5PPLE3SVAJJYUOSAD5QZ4TWQ2G/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/

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