CVE Alert: CVE-2025-26599
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-26599
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.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
2/25/2025, 4:15:39 PM
🔥 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-26599
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345253
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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