xorg-server / xwayland glamor font atlas Heap Buffer Overflow (X.Org xorg-server)

CVE-2026-55999
HIGH 8.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.33 % · percentile 27 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
suse
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Local attackers with a X connection able to provide PCX fonts to the X server xorg-server before 21.2.24 and xwayland before 24.1.13 could cause a heap buffer overflow via SetFont due to missing glyph boundary checks.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsuse
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · meissner@suse.de (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
X.Org · xorg-serveraffected 0 < 21.1.24
X.Org · xwaylandaffected 0 < 24.1.13

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD