RockyLinux 10 : xorg-x11-server-Xwayland (RLSA-2025:7458)

high Nessus Plugin ID 266666

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2025:7458 advisory.

* xorg-x11-server: tigervnc: heap-based buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-9632)

* X.Org: Xwayland: Use-after-free of the root cursor (CVE-2025-26594)

* xorg: xwayland: Use-after-free in SyncInitTrigger() (CVE-2025-26601)

* xorg: xwayland: Use-after-free in PlayReleasedEvents() (CVE-2025-26600)

* xorg: xwayland: Use of uninitialized pointer in compRedirectWindow() (CVE-2025-26599)

* xorg: xwayland: Out-of-bounds write in CreatePointerBarrierClient() (CVE-2025-26598)

* xorg: xwayland: Buffer overflow in XkbChangeTypesOfKey() (CVE-2025-26597)

* xorg: xwayland: Heap overflow in XkbWriteKeySyms() (CVE-2025-26596)

* Xorg: xwayland: Buffer overflow in XkbVModMaskText() (CVE-2025-26595)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 266666

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-7458.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/6/2025

Updated: 10/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-26601

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:xorg-x11-server-xwayland-debuginfo, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:10, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:xorg-x11-server-xwayland, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:xorg-x11-server-xwayland-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:xorg-x11-server-xwayland-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9632, CVE-2025-26594, CVE-2025-26595, CVE-2025-26596, CVE-2025-26597, CVE-2025-26598, CVE-2025-26599, CVE-2025-26600, CVE-2025-26601

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