Another Dozen Vulnerabilities Turn Up in X.Org Server and XWayland

The X.Org project has disclosed another round of vulnerabilities in its display server. This time it is a dozen security issues affecting both the traditional X.Org Server and XWayland — the compatibility layer that lets X11 applications run under Wayland-based environments.

What sets this batch apart is that artificial intelligence was enlisted to help uncover the flaws. AI-assisted tools are increasingly being used for code auditing, and the long-lived X.Org codebase evidently keeps yielding new findings to those who go looking.

The disclosure is yet another reminder of the venerable age of the X11 graphics stack and of why the community has been gradually shifting toward Wayland. Yet with XWayland itself among the affected components, Wayland users are not quite free of the X.Org legacy just yet.

Source: Phoronix