CVE-2025-26596
A heap overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The computation of the length in XkbSizeKeySyms() differs from what is written in XkbWriteKeySyms(), which may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 7.8 High
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2025-02-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-29
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Affected products
- Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
- Rhel Aus (Redhat)
- Rhel E4s (Redhat)
- Rhel Els (Redhat)
- Rhel Eus (Redhat)
- Rhel Tus (Redhat)
- Tigervnc (Tigervnc)
- X Server (X.org)
- Xwayland (X.org)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2500
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2502
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2861
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2862
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2865
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2866
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2873
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2874
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2875
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2879
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2880
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3976
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7163
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7165
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7458
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-26596
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345256
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00036.html
