Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libX11-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBX11DEVEL-12419950
  • published1 Sept 2025
  • disclosed4 Oct 2023

Introduced: 4 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-43785  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libX11-devel package and not the libX11-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to a boundary condition within the _XkbReadKeySyms() function. This flaw allows a local user to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.