Moderate: xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland security update
Security Advisory: Moderate
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
An update for xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.
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.
Xwayland is an X server for running X clients under Wayland.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland (21.1.3). (BZ#2015842)
Security Fix(es):
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
Vulmon