What is RHSA-2022:8491?

RHSA-2022:8491 is a security advisory published by Red Hat Product Security with High severity. Red Hat Security Advisory: xorg-x11-server security update

Which CVE IDs does RHSA-2022:8491 cover?

RHSA-2022:8491 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2022-3550, CVE-2022-3551. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of RHSA-2022:8491?

RHSA-2022:8491 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8, published by Red Hat Product Security.

RHSA-2022:8491HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: xorg-x11-server security update

Vendor

Red Hat Product Security

Published

November 16, 2022

Last Modified

June 26, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2022-3550 →CVE-2022-3551 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-3550 — xorg-x11-server: buffer overflow in _GetCountedString() in xkb/xkb.c CVE-2022-3551 — xorg-x11-server: memory leak in ProcXkbGetKbdByName() in xkb/xkb.c

🔗 References (5)

selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8491
externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140698
externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140701
selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2022/rhsa-2022_8491.json