CVE-2025-49175

Xorg-x11-server-xwayland: xorg-x11-server: tigervnc: out-of-bounds read in x rendering extension animated cursors

MEDIUM 6.1

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 28 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-06-17 14:39 UTC
Updated: 2026-06-30 00:18 UTC
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Deferred

Description

A flaw was found in the X Rendering extension's handling of animated cursors. If a client provides no cursors, the server assumes at least one is present, leading to an out-of-bounds read and potential crash.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H	redhat
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-18502
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-49175

Affected products

Product	Versions
X.Org · xwayland	affected 0 < 24.1.8
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	unaffected 0:24.1.5-4.el10_0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support - EXTENSION	unaffected 0:1.1.0-25.el6_10.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update Support	unaffected 0:1.8.0-17.el7_7.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support	unaffected 0:1.20.4-32.el7_9 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support	unaffected 0:1.8.0-36.el7_9.2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 0:1.20.11-26.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 0:21.1.3-18.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 0:1.15.0-7.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support	unaffected 0:1.9.0-15.el8_2.14 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support	unaffected 0:1.20.6-4.el8_2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:1.20.10-2.el8_4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:1.11.0-8.el8_4.13 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On	unaffected 0:1.20.10-2.el8_4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On	unaffected 0:1.11.0-8.el8_4.13 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:1.12.0-6.el8_6.14 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:21.1.3-2.el8_6.4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:1.20.11-5.el8_6.3 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On	unaffected 0:1.12.0-6.el8_6.14 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On	unaffected 0:21.1.3-2.el8_6.4 < *

Sources

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