RHSA-2025:22040 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for xorg-x11-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

X.Org is an open-source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon.

Security Fix(es):

• xorg: xmayland: Use-after-free in XPresentNotify structure creation (CVE-2025-62229)
• xorg: xwayland: Use-after-free in Xkb client resource removal (CVE-2025-62230)
• xorg: xmayland: Value overflow in XkbSetCompatMap() (CVE-2025-62231)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2402649 - CVE-2025-62229 xorg: xmayland: Use-after-free in XPresentNotify structure creation
• BZ - 2402653 - CVE-2025-62230 xorg: xwayland: Use-after-free in Xkb client resource removal
• BZ - 2402660 - CVE-2025-62231 xorg: xmayland: Value overflow in XkbSetCompatMap()

CVEs

• CVE-2025-62229
• CVE-2025-62230
• CVE-2025-62231

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low