Description:
Xwayland is an X server for running X clients under Wayland.
Security Fix(es):
* xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: stack buffer overflow in font alias resolution due to libXfont2 name length mismatch (CVE-2026-50256)
* xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: use-after-free in miSyncDestroyFence() (CVE-2026-50257)
* xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: stack buffer overflow in XKB key types due to unchecked shift levels (CVE-2026-50258)
* xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: stack buffer overflow in XKB SetMap request via mapWidths indexing (CVE-2026-50259)
* xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: use-after-free in FreeCounter() (CVE-2026-50260)
* xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: use-after-free in SyncChangeCounter() (CVE-2026-50261)
* xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds read/write in GLX ChangeDrawableAttributes (CVE-2026-50262)
* xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: use-after-free information disclosure in CreateSaverWindow() (CVE-2026-50263)
* xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds heap write in DRI2 DRIGetBuffers/DRIGetBuffersWithFormat (CVE-2026-50264)
Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):
* [xwayland] Backport other security fixes without a CVE assigned [almalinux-8.10.z] (JIRA:AlmaLinux-184293)
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.
Updated packages listed below:
| Architecture |
Package |
Checksum |
| aarch64 |
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-21.1.3-20.el8_10.2.aarch64.rpm |
9cb251e18c88f9de5f5f7b55552cf9283482bb28a1ea9db416362506fe650074 |
| ppc64le |
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-21.1.3-20.el8_10.2.ppc64le.rpm |
3631575864bb019a483e9b44e58b435a63257de9617bb9c9c73ccd03abdb540b |
| s390x |
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-21.1.3-20.el8_10.2.s390x.rpm |
cb5275b6886b33f422ffb982b2a79912ead661608e8519c15844979169ebedec |
| x86_64 |
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-21.1.3-20.el8_10.2.x86_64.rpm |
5b6a1d31151d4ea6b87695a407717a1b13ceff9f67b1f5acbb3c33eba36a8e61 |