CVE-2026-88806 (GCVE-0-2026-88806)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-21 13:42
Modified
2026-09-22 03:55
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based buffer overflow
Summary
A malicious X server could exploit a buffer overflow in libX11 before 1.8.14 during handling of XkbGetMap overflowing the key_sym_map.
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