Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerabilities

Eric Sesterhenn discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly compared MIT cookies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and recover the MIT cookie CVE-2017-2624. It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled endianness conversion of certain X...

USN-3362-1 xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled endianness conversion of certain X events. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use this issue to crash the server, or possibly execute arbitrary code as an administrator. CVE-2017-10971 It was...