CVE-2025-26599 HIGH

CVE-2025-26599: Xorg: xwayland: use of uninitialized pointer in compredirectwindow()

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Weakness CWE-824
Published February 25, 2025
Last update April 6, 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

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 25, 2025 CVE published
April 6, 2026 Record updated