| Name | CVE-2025-49176 |
| Description | A flaw was found in the Big Requests extension. The request length is multiplied by 4 before checking against the maximum allowed size, potentially causing an integer overflow and bypassing the size check. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
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 | vulnerable |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2:21.1.7-3+deb12u9 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 2:21.1.16-1.1 | vulnerable |
| sid | 2:21.1.16-1.2 | fixed |
| xwayland (PTS) | bookworm | 2:22.1.9-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 2:24.1.6-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| xorg-server | source | (unstable) | 2:21.1.16-1.2 | | | |
| xwayland | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - xwayland <ignored> (Minor issue; Xwayland shouldn't be running as root)
Fixed by: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/03731b326a80b582e48d939fe62cb1e2b10400d9