RHSA-2026:98461 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libX11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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

The libX11 packages contain the core X11 protocol client library.

Security Fix(es):

• libX11: libX11: Heap-based buffer overflow via malicious X server (CVE-2026-88806)

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 for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2538514 - CVE-2026-88806 libX11: libX11: Heap-based buffer overflow via malicious X server

CVEs

• CVE-2026-88806

References

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