Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting xorg/xwayland package, versions [,24.1.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGXWAYLAND-10667594
  • published9 Jul 2025
  • disclosed17 Jun 2025
  • creditNils Emmerich

Introduced: 17 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-49176  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xorg/xwayland to version 24.1.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound via the BigRequests process in XWayland X server. An attacker can cause memory corruption or crash the application by sending specially crafted requests that trigger an integer overflow during size calculation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1