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CVE-2026-50260
high
Description
A use-after-free flaw was found in the X.Org X server and Xwayland in FreeCounter(). A client that sets up multiple SyncCounters and awaits on those triggers can trigger a use-after-free when destroying those counters via a second client connection. This may be used to crash the server, or for privilege escalation if the X server runs as root.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2485385
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50260
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29844
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28923
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26709
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26610
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26590