RHSA-2024:0320 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: xorg-x11-server security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · January 22, 2024
Updated · August 6, 2026
Topic
An update for xorg-x11-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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
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.
Security Fix(es):
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xorg-x11-server: Heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent and ProcXIQueryPointer (CVE-2023-6816)
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xorg-x11-server: reattaching to different master device may lead to out-of-bounds memory access (CVE-2024-0229)
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xorg-x11-server: SELinux unlabeled GLX PBuffer (CVE-2024-0408)
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xorg-x11-server: SELinux context corruption (CVE-2024-0409)
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xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent (CVE-2024-21885)
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xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in DisableDevice (CVE-2024-21886)
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.