CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-49180

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.27%

19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability was found in the RandR extension of Xorg, where the RRChangeProviderProperty function fails to properly validate input. This leads to an integer overflow when calculating the memory allocation size.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a system crash or potentially execute arbitrary code, compromising the stability and security of the graphical environment.

Recommendation

Immediately update Xorg packages to a version containing the fix for CVE-2025-49180. If no patch is available, temporarily restrict X server access to trusted users only.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in the RandR extension, where the RRChangeProviderProperty function does not properly validate input. This issue leads to an integer overflow when computing the total size to allocate.

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