Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-34000 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-34000 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-34000?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.1, published 5 May 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Tigervnc 1.15.0-7.el9_8.1 and earlier.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-34000?
- A patch was published on 2026-05-19: Red Hat released security updates (RHSA-2026:19342) Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-34000 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network or with local access, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-34000?
- Check whether you run Tigervnc at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the X.Org X server within the XKB geometry processing logic. The root cause is located in the `CheckSetGeom()` and `XkbAddGeomKeyAlias` functions, where bounds checking is incorrectly performed using only the first key name of each alias entry, failing to validate the second name. An attacker with a local or remote connection to the X11 server can trigger this flaw without user interaction by sending a specially crafted request. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to read uninitialized or out-of-bounds memory, potentially leaking sensitive data or causing the server to crash (DoS). Red Hat has released patches for RHEL 9 via RHSA-2026:19342.
Affected products
- X.Org X Server All versions prior to fix
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
- TigerVNC TigerVNC 1.15.0-7.el9_8.1 and earlier
Timeline
- 2026-03-25: disclosed: Initial report in Red Hat Bugzilla
- 2026-05-05: advisory: NVD publication date
- 2026-05-19: patched: Red Hat released security updates (RHSA-2026:19342)