CVE-2025-26599
X.Org and Xwayland Uninitialized Pointer Access Vulnerability
Description
An access to an uninitialized pointer flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The function compCheckRedirect() may fail if it cannot allocate the backing pixmap. In that case, compRedirectWindow() will return a BadAlloc error without validating the window tree marked just before, which leaves the validated data partly initialized and the use of an uninitialized pointer later.
INFO
Published Date :
Feb. 25, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
March 17, 2025, 5:15 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
1.8
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
Mar. 17, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2861 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2866 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2873 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2879 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2880 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Mar. 17, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2865 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2874 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2875 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Mar. 17, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2862 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Mar. 10, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2500 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2502 -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Mar. 04, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:tigervnc:tigervnc:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xwayland:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Added Reference Type Red Hat, Inc.: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-26599 Types: Third Party Advisory Added Reference Type Red Hat, Inc.: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345253 Types: Issue Tracking -
New CVE Received by [email protected]
Feb. 25, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Description An access to an uninitialized pointer flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The function compCheckRedirect() may fail if it cannot allocate the backing pixmap. In that case, compRedirectWindow() will return a BadAlloc error without validating the window tree marked just before, which leaves the validated data partly initialized and the use of an uninitialized pointer later. Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Added CWE CWE-824 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-26599 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345253
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