Olivier Fourdan 116c128a7e dix: Dequeue pending events on frozen device on removal
When a device is removed while still frozen, the events queued for that
device remain while the device itself is freed.

As a result, replaying the events will cause a use after free.

To avoid the issue, make sure to dequeue and free any pending events on
a frozen device when removed.

CVE-2025-26600, ZDI-CAN-25871

This vulnerability was discovered by:
Jan-Niklas Sohn working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

Signed-off-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1828>
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X Server

The X server accepts requests from client applications to create windows, which are (normally rectangular) "virtual screens" that the client program can draw into.

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