ALSA-2026:29844

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux – Published: 2026-06-25 00:00 – Updated: 2026-06-29 08:33 – Source website
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Summary
Important: tigervnc security update
Details

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows users to view a computing desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. TigerVNC is a suite of VNC servers and clients.

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)

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.

References
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      },
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        }
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      "package": {
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  "details": "Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows users to view a computing desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. TigerVNC is a suite of VNC servers and clients.  \n\nSecurity Fix(es):  \n\n  * 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)\n  * xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: use-after-free in miSyncDestroyFence() (CVE-2026-50257)\n  * 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)\n  * xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: stack buffer overflow in XKB SetMap request via mapWidths indexing (CVE-2026-50259)\n  * xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: use-after-free in FreeCounter() (CVE-2026-50260)\n  * xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: use-after-free in SyncChangeCounter() (CVE-2026-50261)\n  * xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds read/write in GLX ChangeDrawableAttributes (CVE-2026-50262)\n  * xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: use-after-free information disclosure in CreateSaverWindow() (CVE-2026-50263)\n  * xorg-x11-server: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland: xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds heap write in DRI2 DRIGetBuffers/DRIGetBuffersWithFormat (CVE-2026-50264)\n\n\nFor 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.\n",
  "id": "ALSA-2026:29844",
  "modified": "2026-06-29T08:33:49Z",
  "published": "2026-06-25T00:00:00Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29844"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50256"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50257"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50258"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50259"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50260"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50261"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50262"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50263"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50264"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2485380"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2485382"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2485383"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2485384"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2485385"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2485386"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2485387"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2485388"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2485389"
    },
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
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    "CVE-2026-50257",
    "CVE-2026-50258",
    "CVE-2026-50259",
    "CVE-2026-50260",
    "CVE-2026-50261",
    "CVE-2026-50262",
    "CVE-2026-50263",
    "CVE-2026-50264"
  ],
  "summary": "Important: tigervnc security update"
}



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