Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting xorg-server package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGSERVER-8747150
  • published26 Feb 2025
  • disclosed25 Feb 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2025-26599  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xorg-server.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access of Uninitialized Pointer due to improper error handling in compCheckRedirect(). If the function fails to allocate a backing pixmap, compRedirectWindow() returns a BadAlloc error without properly marking the window tree as validated,

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1