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Eight New Security Vulnerabilities Reported Against The X.Org Server & XWayland


Eight new security issues have now been made public around the X.Org Server codebase that also impact XWayland.

Eight new security issues have now been made public around the X.Org Server codebase that also impact XWayland. The Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative has once again uncovered a trove of security issues within the X.Org Server codebase... CVE-2025-26594: Use-after-free of the root cursor CVE-2025-26595: Buffer overflow in XkbVModMaskText() CVE-2025-26596: Heap overflow in XkbWriteKeySyms() CVE-2025-26597: Buffer overflow in XkbChangeTypesOfKey() CVE-2025-26598: Out-of-bounds write in CreatePointerBarrierClient() CVE-2025-26599: Use of uninitialized pointer in compRedirectWindow() CVE-2025-26600: Use-after-free in PlayReleasedEvents() CVE-2025-26601: Use-after-free in SyncInitTrigger() XWayland 24.1.6 and X.Org Server 21.1.16 have been released to address these newly-disclosed vulnerabilities.

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