Xorg: xwayland: use of uninitialized pointer in compredirectwindow()
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 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.
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