RHSA-2022:7583 — Security Advisory

An update for xorg-x11-server, xorg-x11-server-Xwayland, and xorg-x11-xtrans-devel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

X.Org is an open-source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon.

Xwayland is an X server for running X clients under Wayland.

Security Fix(es):

• xorg-x11-server: X.Org Server ProcXkbSetGeometry out-of-bounds access (CVE-2022-2319)

• xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds access in ProcXkbSetDeviceInfo request handler of the Xkb extension (CVE-2022-2320)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.