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CVE-2023-6816criticalCWE-787

Xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in devicefocusevent and procxiquerypointer

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 9.8epss 2.1%
exploitation probability
2.1%top 19% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in X.Org server. Both DeviceFocusEvent and the XIQueryPointer reply contain a bit for each logical button currently down. Buttons can be arbitrarily mapped to any value up to 255, but the X.Org Server was only allocating space for the device's particular number of buttons, leading to a heap overflow if a bigger value was used.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H