Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xorg-x11-server  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-XORGX11SERVER-3107453
  • published8 Nov 2022
  • disclosed17 Oct 2022

Introduced: 17 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-3551  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xorg-x11-server package and not the xorg-x11-server package as distributed by RHEL.

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in X.org Server. Affected by this issue is the function ProcXkbGetKbdByName of the file xkb/xkb.c. The manipulation leads to memory leak. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211052.