The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2170 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * xorg-x11-server: Out-of-bounds write in XIChangeDeviceProperty/RRChangeOutputProperty (CVE-2023-5367)

    * xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds memory reads/writes in XKB button actions (CVE-2023-6377)

    * xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds memory read in RRChangeOutputProperty and RRChangeProviderProperty     (CVE-2023-6478)

    * xorg-x11-server: Heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent and ProcXIQueryPointer (CVE-2023-6816)

    * xorg-x11-server: reattaching to different master device may lead to out-of-bounds memory access     (CVE-2024-0229)

    * xorg-x11-server: SELinux unlabeled GLX PBuffer (CVE-2024-0408)

    * xorg-x11-server: SELinux context corruption (CVE-2024-0409)

    * xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent (CVE-2024-21885)

    * xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in DisableDevice (CVE-2024-21886)

    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 9.4 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 9 : xorg-x11-server-Xwayland (RHSA-2024:2170)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194793

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Version 1.4 Nov 7, 2024, 2:36 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071436
Version 1.3 Nov 5, 2024, 6:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411051829
Version 1.2 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.1 May 2, 2024, 3:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202405021556
Version 1.0 Apr 30, 2024, 4:14 PM New Plugin Feed: 202404301614