Red Hat alert RHSA-2025:2879-01 (xorg-x11-server) [LWN.net]

An update for xorg-x11-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. X.Org is an open-source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon. Security Fix(es): * X.Org: Xwayland: Use-after-free of the root cursor (CVE-2025-26594) * xorg: xwayland: Use-after-free in SyncInitTrigger() (CVE-2025-26601) * xorg: xwayland: Use-after-free in PlayReleasedEvents() (CVE-2025-26600) * xorg: xwayland: Use of uninitialized pointer in compRedirectWindow() (CVE-2025-26599) * xorg: xwayland: Out-of-bounds write in CreatePointerBarrierClient() (CVE-2025-26598) * xorg: xwayland: Buffer overflow in XkbChangeTypesOfKey() (CVE-2025-26597) * xorg: xwayland: Heap overflow in XkbWriteKeySyms() (CVE-2025-26596) * Xorg: xwayland: Buffer overflow in XkbVModMaskText() (CVE-2025-26595) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

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