RHSA-2023:6497 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libX11 security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 7, 2023

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for libX11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

Description

The libX11 packages contain the core X11 protocol client library.

Security Fix(es):

  • libX11: InitExt.c can overwrite unintended portions of the Display structure if the extension request leads to a buffer overflow (CVE-2023-3138)

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 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:6497 — Red Hat Security Advisory: libX11 security update | PulseLinux