CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-26596

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.39%

31th percentile - higher than 31% of all known CVEs

Summary

A heap overflow vulnerability was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The discrepancy in length calculation between XkbSizeKeySyms() and XkbWriteKeySyms() may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a system crash, compromising data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Recommendation

Immediately update X.Org and Xwayland packages to versions containing the security fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A heap overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The computation of the length in XkbSizeKeySyms() differs from what is written in XkbWriteKeySyms(), which may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS