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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-6478"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-12-13T06:27:41.017Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-23T17:19:12.966Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-6478"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-6478.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6478"
title: "Xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds memory read in rrchangeoutputproperty and rrchangeproviderproperty"
summary: "A flaw was found in xorg-server. A specially crafted request to RRChangeProviderProperty or RRChangeOutputProperty can trigger an integer overflow which may lead to a disclosure of sensitive information."
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