.Org Server XInput Passive Grab Use-After-Free

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    "title": ".Org Server XInput Passive Grab Use-After-Free",
    "summary": "A use-after-free caused by lack of lifecycle management when adding / removing XInput master devices in X.org X Server before 21.1.25 and XWayland before 24.1.14 could be used by authenticated X Clients to crash the X server or potentially execute code in X server context.",
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