Xorg-x11-server: selinux context corruption
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 73% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in the X.Org server. The cursor code in both Xephyr and Xwayland uses the wrong type of private at creation. It uses the cursor bits type with the cursor as private, and when initiating the cursor, that overwrites the XSELINUX context.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
xorg-serverRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0320https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2169https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2170https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2995https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2996https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0409https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257690https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00016.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5J4H7CH565ALSZZYKOJFYDA5KFLG6NUK/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EJBMCWQ54R6ZL3MYU2D2JBW6JMZL7BQW/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZ75X54CN4IFYMIV7OK3JVZ57FHQIGIC/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-30