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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://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/PSIRTSUPT-16950
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2026-June/003702.html
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/f5abfb61994471023d8c6470428c8e30c411cc0b