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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-824CWE-824
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- TIGERVNC
- Published
- 2/25/2025
- Last Modified
- 11/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
tigervnc : tigervncx.org : x_serverx.org : xwaylandredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linux
AI-Powered Remediation
Generate remediation guidance or a C-suite brief for this vulnerability.