An update for libX11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended
 Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libX11 packages contain the core X11 protocol client library.

Security Fix(es):

* libX11: InitExt.c can overwrite unintended portions of the Display structure
 if the extension request leads to a buffer overflow (CVE-2023-3138)

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.

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CVE-2023-3138: Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)