Debian DSA-4328-1 : xorg-server - security update

Narendra Shinde discovered that incorrect command-line parameter validation in the Xorg X server may result in arbitary file overwrite, which can result in privilege escalation. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3802-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

USN-3802-1 xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04 vulnerability

Narendra Shinde discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled certain command line parameters when running as root with the legacy wrapper. When certain graphics drivers are being used, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files and escalate privileges...

USN-3802-1: X.Org X server vulnerability

Narendra Shinde discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled certain command line parameters when running as root with the legacy wrapper. When certain graphics drivers are being used, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files and escalate privileges...

New Privilege Escalation Flaw Affects Most Linux Distributions

An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. Xorg X server is a popular open-source implementation of the X11 system display server that offers ...

xorg-x11-server elevation of privilege vulnerability

The xorg-x11-server is an X Window System display server bundled with multiple vendor operating systems. A security vulnerability exists in xorg-x11-server versions prior to 1.20.3. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges and run arbitrary code with root privileges...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4328-1] xorg-server security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4328-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff October 25, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

SUSE-SU-2018:3456-1 Security update for xorg-x11-server

This update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fix: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2018-14665: Local attackers could overwrite system files in any directory using the -logfile option and gain privileges bsc1111697 Non security issues fixed: - Do not write past the allocated buffer. bsc107838...

DSA-4328-1 xorg-server - security update

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xorg-x11-server < 1.20.3 - Local Privilege Escalation

CVE-2018-14665 - a LPE exploit via http://X.org fits in a tweet cd /etc; Xorg -fp "root::16431:0:99999:7:::" -logfile shadow :1;su Overwrite shadow or any file on most Linux, get root privileges. BSD and any other Xorg desktop also affected. !/bin/sh local privilege escalation in X11 currently...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4328-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2624

It was found that xorg-x11-server before 1.19.0 including uses memcmp to check the received MIT cookie against a series of valid cookies. If the cookie is correct, it is allowed to attach to the Xorg session. Since most memcmp implementations return after an invalid byte is seen, this causes a ti...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 125720-67

X11 6.8.0x86: Xorg server patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Nov/12/15 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 125720-65

X11 6.8.0x86: Xorg server patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Oct/13/14 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 125720-66

X11 6.8.0x86: Xorg server patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jul/13/15 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 125720-59

X11 6.8.0x86: Xorg server patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Sep/12/13 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 125719-56

X11 6.8.0: Xorg server patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Nov/12/15 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 125720-68

X11 6.8.0x86: Xorg server patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Mar/09/17 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 125719-57

X11 6.8.0: Xorg server patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Mar/09/17 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 125719-55

X11 6.8.0: Xorg server patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jul/13/15 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...