THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-50259 (HIGH 7.8) — A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the X.Org X server and Xwayland. _XkbSetMapChecks() declares a fixed-size stack buffer mapWidths[256] indexed by key type index. The helper function CheckKeyTypes() writes to this buffer at a client-controlled offset, allowing a sta
[NVD] CVE-2026-50259 (HIGH 7.8) — A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the X.Org X server and Xwayland. _XkbSetMapChecks() declares a fixed-size stack buffer mapWidths[256] indexed by key type index. The helper function CheckKeyTypes() writes to this buffer at a client-controlled offset, allowing a sta
CVE-2026-50259 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-06-05T12:16:39.240
A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the X.Org X server and Xwayland. _XkbSetMapChecks() declares a fixed-size stack buffer mapWidths[256] indexed by key type index. The helper function CheckKeyTypes() writes to this buffer at a client-controlled offset, allowing a stack buffer overflow. This may be used to crash the serv
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- CVE-2026-50259cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50259