X.Org X Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org X Server. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could execute arbitrary...

FreeBSD : libXfont -- X Font Service Protocol and Font metadata file handling issues (b060ee50-daba-11e3-99f2-bcaec565249c)

Alan Coopersmith reports : Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered several issues in the way the libXfont library handles the responses it receives from xfs servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most of these...

Debian DSA-2927-1 : libxfont - security update

Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in the X.Org libXfont library, which may allow a local, authenticated user to attempt to raise privileges; or a remote attacker who can control the font server to attempt to execute code with the privileges of the X server. -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2927-1] libxfont security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2927-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso May 13, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2014-0210

Multiple buffer overflows in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 allow remote font servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted xfs protocol reply to the 1 fsrecvconnsetup, 2 fsreadopenfont, 3 fsreadqueryinfo, 4 fsreadextentinfo, 5 fsreadglyphs, 6 fsreadlist, or 7...

CVE-2014-0211

Multiple integer overflows in the 1 fsgetreply, 2 fsallocglyphs, and 3 fsreadextentinfo functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 allow remote font servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted xfs reply, which triggers a buffer overflow...

CVE-2014-0209

Multiple integer overflows in the 1 FontFileAddEntry and 2 lexAlias functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 might allow local users to gain privileges by adding a directory with a large fonts.dir or fonts.alias file to the font path, which triggers a heap-based buffe...

DSA-2927-1 libxfont - security update

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libXfont -- X Font Service Protocol and Font metadata file handling issues

Alan Coopersmith reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered several issues in the way the libXfont library handles the responses it receives from xfs servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most of these...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2927-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

NVidia drivers privilege escalation

Privilege escalation via X.Org drivers...

CVE-2012-0064

xkeyboard-config before 2.5 in X.Org before 7.6 enables certain XKB debugging functions by default, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an X screen lock via keyboard combinations that break the input grab...

CVE-2012-0064

xkeyboard-config before 2.5 in X.Org before 7.6 enables certain XKB debugging functions by default, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an X screen lock via keyboard combinations that break the input grab...

Input validation

xkeyboard-config before 2.5 in X.Org before 7.6 enables certain XKB debugging functions by default, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an X screen lock via keyboard combinations that break the input grab...

CVE-2012-0064

xkeyboard-config before 2.5 in X.Org before 7.6 enables certain XKB debugging functions by default, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an X screen lock via keyboard combinations that break the input grab...

CVE-2012-0064

CVE-2012-0064 : xkeyboard-config before 2.5 in X.Org before 7.6 enables certain XKB debugging functions by default, allowing physically proximate attackers to bypass an X screen lock via keyboard combinations that break the input grab. Affected: xkeyboard-config < 2.5 and X.Org

CVE-2012-0064

xkeyboard-config before 2.5 in X.Org before 7.6 enables certain XKB debugging functions by default, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an X screen lock via keyboard combinations that break the input grab...

CVE-2012-0064

xkeyboard-config before 2.5 in X.Org before 7.6 enables certain XKB debugging functions by default, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an X screen lock via keyboard combinations that break the input grab...

CVE-2011-4613

The X.Org X wrapper xserver-wrapper.c in Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux does not properly verify the TTY of a user who is starting X, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by associating stdin with a file that is misinterpreted as the console TTY...

Design/Logic Flaw

The X.Org X wrapper xserver-wrapper.c in Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux does not properly verify the TTY of a user who is starting X, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by associating stdin with a file that is misinterpreted as the console TTY...