USN-3456-1 xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled certain lengths. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use these issues to crash the server, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

DSA-4000-1 xorg-server - security update

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Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4000-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

FreeBSD : xorg-server -- multiple vulnabilities (7274e0cc-575f-41bc-8619-14a41b3c2ad0)

Adam Jackson reports : One regression fix since 1.19.4 mea culpa, and fixes for CVEs 2017-12176 through 2017-12187. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : Copyright 2003-2018...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3453-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12186

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing length validation in X-Resource extension allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

xorg-server -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adam Jackson reports: One regression fix since 1.19.4 mea culpa, and fixes for CVEs 2017-12176 through 2017-12187...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13723

In X.Org Server aka xserver and xorg-server before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13721

In X.Org Server aka xserver and xorg-server before 1.19.4, an attacker authenticated to an X server with the X shared memory extension enabled can cause aborts of the X server or replace shared memory segments of other X clients in the same session...

CVE-2017-13723

In X.Org Server aka xserver and xorg-server before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp...

FreeBSD : xorg-server -- multiple vulnabilities (4f8ffb9c-f388-4fbd-b90f-b3131559d888)

Alan Coopersmith reports : X.Org thanks Michal Srb of SuSE for finding these issues and bringing them to our attention, Julien Cristau of Debian for getting the fixes integrated, and Adam Jackson of Red Hat for publishing the release. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

CVE-2017-13721

CVE-2017-13721 affects X.Org Server (xserver/xorg-server) prior to 1.19.4. The issue arises in ProcShmCreateSegment: a shmseg resource id can belong to a non-existing client, causing X server aborts with FatalError or overwriting another client’s segment. This can enable a local attacker to crash...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13721

In X.Org Server aka xserver and xorg-server before 1.19.4, an attacker authenticated to an X server with the X shared memory extension enabled can cause aborts of the X server or replace shared memory segments of other X clients in the same session...

Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : xorg-server (SSA:2017-279-03)

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2017-279-03. The text itself is...

[ASA-201710-10] xorg-server: multiple issues

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201710-10 ========================================== Severity: Medium Date : 2017-10-08 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-13721 CVE-2017-13723 Package : xorg-server Type : multiple issues Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-432 Summary ======= The package...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xorg-server-1.18.3-i586-4slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes two security issues: Xext/shm: Validate shmseg...

xorg-server -- multiple vulnerabilities

Alan Coopersmith reports: X.Org thanks Michal Srb of SuSE for finding these issues and bringing them to our attention, Julien Cristau of Debian for getting the fixes integrated, and Adam Jackson of Red Hat for publishing the release...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xorg-server-1.18.3-i586-3slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes two security issues: A user...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : xorg-server (SSA:2017-227-01)

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2017-227-01. T...

[ASA-201708-11] xorg-server: multiple issues

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201708-11 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2017-08-14 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-10971 CVE-2017-10972 Package : xorg-server Type : multiple issues Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-341 Summary ======= The package...