FKIE_CVE-2026-56000

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-08 09:16 - Updated: 2026-07-09 19:47
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Local attackers with a X connection able to provide GLX commit to the X server xorg-server before 21.2.24 and xwayland before 24.1.13 could cause a Heap Use After Free, due to CommonMakeCurrent() pointing into potentially reallocated memory.
References
meissner@suse.dehttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/2779affbdb4354e894f490e56f962527d6125043Patch
meissner@suse.dehttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/08/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
x.org x_server *
x.org xwayland *
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