CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-26599

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Published: Feb 25, 2025 | Modified: Mar 17, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An access to an uninitialized pointer flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The function compCheckRedirect() may fail if it cannot allocate the backing pixmap. In that case, compRedirectWindow() will return a BadAlloc error without validating the window tree marked just before, which leaves the validated data partly initialized and the use of an uninitialized pointer later.

Weakness

The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Tigervnc Tigervnc - (including) - (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support RedHat tigervnc-0:1.8.0-36.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support RedHat xorg-x11-server-0:1.20.4-30.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat tigervnc-0:1.13.1-15.el8_10 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support RedHat tigervnc-0:1.9.0-15.el8_2.13 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support RedHat tigervnc-0:1.11.0-8.el8_4.12 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service RedHat tigervnc-0:1.11.0-8.el8_4.12 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat tigervnc-0:1.11.0-8.el8_4.12 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support RedHat tigervnc-0:1.12.0-6.el8_6.13 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service RedHat tigervnc-0:1.12.0-6.el8_6.13 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat tigervnc-0:1.12.0-6.el8_6.13 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support RedHat tigervnc-0:1.12.0-15.el8_8.12 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat tigervnc-0:1.14.1-1.el9_5.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat tigervnc-0:1.11.0-22.el9_0.13 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support RedHat tigervnc-0:1.12.0-14.el9_2.10 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support RedHat tigervnc-0:1.13.1-8.el9_4.5 *
Xorg-server Ubuntu devel *
Xorg-server Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Xorg-server Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Xorg-server Ubuntu focal *
Xorg-server Ubuntu jammy *
Xorg-server Ubuntu noble *
Xorg-server Ubuntu oracular *
Xorg-server Ubuntu upstream *
Xorg-server-hwe-16.04 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Xorg-server-hwe-18.04 Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Xwayland Ubuntu devel *
Xwayland Ubuntu jammy *
Xwayland Ubuntu noble *
Xwayland Ubuntu oracular *
Xwayland Ubuntu upstream *

Extended Description

If the pointer contains an uninitialized value, then the value might not point to a valid memory location. This could cause the product to read from or write to unexpected memory locations, leading to a denial of service. If the uninitialized pointer is used as a function call, then arbitrary functions could be invoked. If an attacker can influence the portion of uninitialized memory that is contained in the pointer, this weakness could be leveraged to execute code or perform other attacks. Depending on memory layout, associated memory management behaviors, and product operation, the attacker might be able to influence the contents of the uninitialized pointer, thus gaining more fine-grained control of the memory location to be accessed.

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