A flaw was found in X.Org Server Overlay Window. A Use-After-Free may lead to local privilege escalation. If a client explicitly destroys the compositor overlay window (aka COW), the Xserver would leave a dangling pointer to that window in the CompScreen structure, which will trigger a use-after-free later.
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Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:45:00 +0000
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X.org x Server
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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X.org xorg-server
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X.org x Server
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2023-03-30T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-02-14T15:43:04.174Z
Reserved: 2023-03-14T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2023-1393
Updated: 2024-08-02T05:49:11.396Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-03-30T21:15:06.557
Modified: 2025-08-29T13:42:30.557
Link: CVE-2023-1393