CVE-2024-0229HighMicrosoft CVSS 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-0229 — cbl2 xorg-x11-server

Published
May 31, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products3

  • cbl2 xorg-x11-server 1.20.10-12 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 xorg-x11-server 1.20.10-15 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 xorg-x11-server 1.20.10-15 on CBL-Mariner 2.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update

1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update1.20.10-12

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-0229

EchelonGraph score
7.8 HIGH
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the X.Org server. This issue can be triggered when a device frozen by a sync grab is reattached to a different master device. This issue may lead to an application crash, local privilege escalation (if the server runs with extended privileges), or remote code execution in SSH X11 forwarding environments.

Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-0229, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)