RHSA-2024:0320 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: xorg-x11-server security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

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):

  • xorg-x11-server: Heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent and ProcXIQueryPointer (CVE-2023-6816)

  • xorg-x11-server: reattaching to different master device may lead to out-of-bounds memory access (CVE-2024-0229)

  • xorg-x11-server: SELinux unlabeled GLX PBuffer (CVE-2024-0408)

  • xorg-x11-server: SELinux context corruption (CVE-2024-0409)

  • xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent (CVE-2024-21885)

  • 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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2024:0320 — Red Hat Security Advisory: xorg-x11-server security update | PulseLinux