Updated x11-server packages fix CVE-2015-0255

Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerability: Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request, where the server trusts the client to send valid string lengths. A malicious client with string lengt...

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...