CVE-2025-26597 HIGH

CVE-2025-26597: Xorg: xwayland: buffer overflow in xkbchangetypesofkey()

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Weakness CWE-119
Published February 25, 2025
Last update June 2, 2026

CVSS base score

7.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. If XkbChangeTypesOfKey() is called with a 0 group, it will resize the key symbols table to 0 but leave the key actions unchanged. If the same function is later called with a non-zero value of groups, this will cause a buffer overflow because the key actions are of the wrong size.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 25, 2025 CVE published
June 2, 2026 Record updated