diff --git a/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/java2d/x11/XRBackendNative.c b/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/java2d/x11/XRBackendNative.c
index 0ea86e3e9b3..ebb3e32890e 100644
--- a/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/java2d/x11/XRBackendNative.c
+++ b/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/java2d/x11/XRBackendNative.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2010, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2010, 2026, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ Java_sun_java2d_xr_XRBackendNative_createPixmap(JNIEnv *env, jobject this,
 JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL
 Java_sun_java2d_xr_XRBackendNative_createPictureNative
  (JNIEnv *env, jclass cls, jint drawable, jlong formatPtr) {
-  XRenderPictureAttributes pict_attr;
+  XRenderPictureAttributes pict_attr = {0};
   return XRenderCreatePicture(awt_display, (Drawable) drawable,
                               (XRenderPictFormat *) jlong_to_ptr(formatPtr),
                                0, &pict_attr);