CVE-2026-109089

Published: Oct 27, 2026Modified: Oct 28, 2026

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 1.6 / Impact: 5.9

Source: meissner@suse.de (Secondary)

Description

A buffer overflow when handling DEVICE_RESOLUTION in libXi before 1.8.4 could overflow a heap, triggered by a malicious X server.

Related CWEs

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

References (1)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxi/-/commit/f7836d0a0

Source: meissner@suse.de

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