THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-50256 (HIGH 7.8) — A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the X.Org X server and Xwayland. A mismatch between the X server and the libXfont2 library's maximum font name length can cause a stack buffer overflow during font alias resolution. The server allocates a 256 byte stack buffer but l
[NVD] CVE-2026-50256 (HIGH 7.8) — A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the X.Org X server and Xwayland. A mismatch between the X server and the libXfont2 library's maximum font name length can cause a stack buffer overflow during font alias resolution. The server allocates a 256 byte stack buffer but l
CVE-2026-50256 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-06-05T12:16:38.727
A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the X.Org X server and Xwayland. A mismatch between the X server and the libXfont2 library's maximum font name length can cause a stack buffer overflow during font alias resolution. The server allocates a 256 byte stack buffer but libXfont2's alias target name length is 1024 bytes. A f
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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50256