A buffer overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The code in XkbVModMaskText() allocates a fixed-sized buffer on the stack and copies the names of the virtual modifiers to that buffer. The code fails to check the bounds of the buffer and would copy the data regardless of the size.
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Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:45:00 +0000
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream |
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Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:00:00 +0000
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Tigervnc
Tigervnc tigervnc X.org X.org x Server X.org xwayland |
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CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:tigervnc:tigervnc:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xwayland:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Tigervnc
Tigervnc tigervnc X.org X.org x Server X.org xwayland |
Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:15:00 +0000
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Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000
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Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000
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Description | A buffer overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The code in XkbVModMaskText() allocates a fixed-sized buffer on the stack and copies the names of the virtual modifiers to that buffer. The code fails to check the bounds of the buffer and would copy the data regardless of the size. | |
Title | Xorg: xwayland: buffer overflow in xkbvmodmasktext() | |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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Weaknesses | CWE-121 | |
CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2025-02-25T15:54:06.708Z
Updated: 2025-03-10T12:58:39.566Z
Reserved: 2025-02-12T14:12:22.795Z
Link: CVE-2025-26595

Updated: 2025-02-25T20:05:14.099Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2025-02-25T16:15:38.390
Modified: 2025-03-10T13:15:35.167
Link: CVE-2025-26595
