CVE-2022-49737 (GCVE-0-2022-49737)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-16 00:00
Modified
2025-03-17 16:07
Severity ?
7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-413 - Improper Resource Locking
Summary
In X.Org X server 20.11 through 21.1.16, when a client application uses easystroke for mouse gestures, the main thread modifies various data structures used by the input thread without acquiring a lock, aka a race condition. In particular, AttachDevice in dix/devices.c does not acquire an input lock.
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