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Red Hat Security Advisory: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland update

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Medium
Published: 11/04/2025 (11/04/2025, 10:35:41 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Please update

Affected software

redhat/xorg-x11-server-Xwayland
pkg:rpm/redhat/xorg-x11-server-Xwayland
Affected versions
>=9.0 <9.6>=9.6 <9.8

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AILast updated: 07/12/2026, 10:54:35 UTC

Technical Analysis

The Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:19623 addresses three vulnerabilities in the xorg-x11-server-Xwayland package affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and related variants. The issues include use-after-free bugs in XPresentNotify structure creation (CVE-2025-62229) and Xkb client resource removal (CVE-2025-62230), as well as a value overflow in XkbSetCompatMap() (CVE-2025-62231). These vulnerabilities could potentially lead to memory corruption. Red Hat has released updated xorg-x11-server-Xwayland packages to remediate these issues. The advisory covers multiple architectures and extended update support versions of RHEL 9. No CVSS score is provided, and no exploits are known in the wild at this time.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities involve use-after-free and value overflow conditions in the Xwayland server component, which could lead to memory corruption. This may affect system stability or security depending on exploitation, but no known exploits have been reported. The severity is rated moderate by Red Hat.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released updated xorg-x11-server-Xwayland packages that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the updates as per Red Hat's guidance after ensuring all previously released errata relevant to their system have been applied. Refer to Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:19623 and the update instructions at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 for detailed remediation steps.

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Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Csaf Category
csaf_security_advisory
Csaf Version
2.0
Publisher
Red Hat Product Security
Advisory Id
RHSA-2025:19623
Cve Count
3
Additional Cves
["CVE-2025-62230","CVE-2025-62231"]

Threat ID: 6a3da1df4853345fc182b038

Added to database: 06/25/2026, 21:47:11 UTC

Last enriched: 07/12/2026, 10:54:35 UTC

Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:51 UTC

Views: 33

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