CVE-2025-26599 - X.Org and Xwayland Uninitialized Pointer Access Vulnerability

CVE-2025-26599 - X.Org and Xwayland Uninitialized Pointer Access Vulnerability

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CVE ID : CVE-2025-26599
Published : Feb. 25, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 2 hours, 6 minutes ago
Description : 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.
Severity: 7.8 | HIGH
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