| Name | CVE-2025-26595 |
| Description | A buffer overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The code in XkbVModMaskText() allocates a fixed-sized buffer on the stack and copies the names of the virtual modifiers to that buffer. The code fails to check the bounds of the buffer and would copy the data regardless of the size. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-4072-1, DSA-5872-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1098906, 1098907 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xorg-server (PTS) | bullseye | 2:1.20.11-1+deb11u13 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2:1.20.11-1+deb11u15 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2:21.1.7-3+deb12u9 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2:21.1.16-1 | fixed |
| xwayland (PTS) | bookworm | 2:22.1.9-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 2:24.1.6-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - xwayland <ignored> (Minor issue; Xwayland shouldn't be running as root)
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-February/003584.html
Fixed by: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/11fcda8753e994e15eb915d28cf487660ec8e722