PT-2025-7897
CVE-2025-26599
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Published
2025-02-25
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Updated
2026-10-16
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
X.Org and Xwayland (affected versions not specified)
Description
An issue was found where the function
compCheckRedirect() may fail to allocate the backing pixmap, leading to a BadAlloc error. This error occurs without validating the window tree marked just before, resulting in partly initialized validated data and the potential use of an uninitialized pointer later.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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