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...

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...

Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerabilities

In Xext/shm, the shmseg resource id can belong to a non-existing client and abort X server with FatalError "client not in use", or overwrite existing segment of another existing client CVE-2017-13721. Generating strings for XKB data used a single shared static buffer, which offered several...

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...

[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: information leak and denial of service

Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string lengths exceeding the...

xorg-server -- Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers.

Peter Hutterer reports: Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string...

CVE-2013-4394

The SetX11Keyboard function in systemd, when PolicyKit Local Authority PKLA is used to change the group permissions on the X Keyboard Extension XKB layouts description, allows local users in the group to modify the Xorg X11 Server configuration file and possibly gain privileges via vectors...

Design/Logic Flaw

The SetX11Keyboard function in systemd, when PolicyKit Local Authority PKLA is used to change the group permissions on the X Keyboard Extension XKB layouts description, allows local users in the group to modify the Xorg X11 Server configuration file and possibly gain privileges via vectors...

CVE-2013-4394

CVE-2013-4394 concerns systemd’s SetX11Keyboard function. When PKLA is used to change group permissions on XKB layouts, local users in that group may modify the Xorg X11 Server configuration file and potentially gain privileges through vectors involving special and control characters. The vulnera...

CVE-2013-4394

The SetX11Keyboard function in systemd, when PolicyKit Local Authority PKLA is used to change the group permissions on the X Keyboard Extension XKB layouts description, allows local users in the group to modify the Xorg X11 Server configuration file and possibly gain privileges via vectors...

CVE-2013-1056

X.org X server 1.13.3 and earlier, when not run as root, allows local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly gain privileges via vectors involving cached xkb files...

Design/Logic Flaw

X.org X server 1.13.3 and earlier, when not run as root, allows local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly gain privileges via vectors involving cached xkb files...

CVE-2013-1056

X.org X server 1.13.3 and earlier, when not run as root, allows local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly gain privileges via vectors involving cached xkb files...

CVE-2013-1056

X.org X server 1.13.3 and earlier, when not run as root, allows local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly gain privileges via vectors involving cached xkb files...

USN-1990-1: X.Org X server vulnerabilities

Pedro Ribeiro discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled memory operations when handling ImageText requests. An attacker could use this issue to cause X.Org to crash, or to possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2013-4396 It was discovered that non-root X.Org X servers such as Xephyr...

CVE-2013-1056

X.org X server 1.13.3 and earlier, when not run as root, allows local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly gain privileges via vectors involving cached xkb files...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-1056

X.org X server 1.13.3 and earlier, when not run as root, allows local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly gain privileges via vectors involving cached xkb files...

Debian DSA-2777-1 : systemd - several vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues in systemd have been discovered by Sebastian Krahmer and Florian Weimer: Insecure interaction with DBUS could lead to the bypass of Policykit restrictions and privilege escalation or denial of service through an integer overflow in journald and missing input sanitising in...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2777-1] systemd security update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2777-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff October 11, 2013 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...