CVE-2022-46340

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% 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-787

Description

A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This security flaw occurs becuase the swap handler for the XTestFakeInput request of the XTest extension may corrupt the stack if GenericEvents with lengths larger than 32 bytes are sent through a the XTestFakeInput request. 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. This issue does not affect systems where client and server use the same byte order.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 11.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 36, 37
xorg-x11-server: 1.20.4

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46340
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151755
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/RWTH3SNJ3GKYDSN7I3QDGWYEPSMWU6EP/
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-2022-46340
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151755
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/

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