Ubuntu Update for x11-xserver-utils vulnerability USN-1107-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1107-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11071.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for x11-xserver-utils vulnerability USN-1107-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : x11-xserver-utils vulnerability (USN-1107-1)

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the xrdb utility incorrectly filtered crafted hostnames. An attacker could use this flaw with a malicious DHCP server or with a remote xdmcp login and execute arbitrary code, resulting in root privilege escalation. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted...