CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2025-49179
HIGH7.3
CVSS v3
Description
A flaw was found in the X Record extension. The RecordSanityCheckRegisterClients function does not check for an integer overflow when computing request length, which allows a client to bypass length checks.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Attack VectorLocal
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
Impact
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityHigh
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
0.28%probability of exploitation in 30 days
19thpercentile
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 19% of all known CVEs.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10258
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10342
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10343
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10344
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10346
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10347
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10348
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10349
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10350
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10351
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10352
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10355
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10356
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10360
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10370
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10374
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10375
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10376
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10377
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10378
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10381
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10410
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9303
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9304
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9305
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9306
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9392
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9964
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49179
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369978
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/2bde9ca49a8fd9a1e6697d5e7ef837870d66f5d4
- https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/06/msg00028.html
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