Xorg: xwayland: out-of-bounds write in createpointerbarrierclient()
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 65% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The function GetBarrierDevice() searches for the pointer device based on its device ID and returns the matching value, or supposedly NULL, if no match was found. However, the code will return the last element of the list if no matching device ID is found, which can lead to out-of-bounds memory access.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
xserverRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support - EXTENSIONRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update ServiceRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update ServiceRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update SupportReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2500https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2502https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2861https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2862https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2865https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2866https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2873https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2874https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2875https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2879https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2880https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3976