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Medium ALSA-2023:6917 1 CVE

Moderate: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland security and bug fix update

Published Nov 14, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Xwayland is an X server for running X clients under Wayland.

Security Fix(es):

* xorg-x11-server: X.Org Server Overlay Window Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2023-1393)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 xorg-x11-server-Xwayland 21.1.3-12.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1393
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2180288
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-6917.html