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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.6

CVE-2026-94282 json

Out-of-bounds read in libXi's XI2 enter/leave/focus cookie conversion

published 2026-09-28 42 d ago modified 2026-09-30 39 d ago also EUVD-2026-88168

cvss
5.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An out-of-bounds read in libXi's XI2 enter/leave/focus cookie conversion in libXi before 1.8.4 could be used by malicious X server to crash an attached X client.

Patch / fix

  • x.org libXi 1.8.4
  • libxi Debian 14 2:1.8.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-94282

  • libXi hummingbird 1 1.8.4-0.1.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:84837

  • libXi Linux Micro 6.0 1.8.1-159998.1.1
  • libXi SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 1.8.2-160000.4.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:24366-1SUSE-SU-2026:24119-1SUSE-SU-2026:24203-1

  • libXi openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.8.2-160000.4.1
  • libXi openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.8.3-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:22054-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11895-1

  • libxi Alpine 3.24 1.8.4-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-94282

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libXi Azure Linux 3.0 1.8.4-1

azure linux advisories AZL-104966

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-94282 updated cvss 6.1

libXi: libXi: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in XI2 event processing

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libXi Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libXi Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libXi Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 libXi Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 libXi
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images libXi 1.8.4-0.1.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:84837

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
39 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • x.org libXi

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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