Out-Of-Bounds Read

FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and manage font files. It also loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs efficiently. Multiple integer overflow flaws and an integer signedness flaw, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way FreeType handl...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in xorg-x11-server affect IBM Flex System Manager (FSM)

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in xorg-x11-server that is used by IBM Flex System Manager FSM. This bulletin addresses these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in xorg-x11-server that is used by IBM Flex System Manager FSM. This bulletin...

What is a vulnerability and what is not?

It looks like a pretty simple question. I used it to started my MIPT lecture. But actually the answer is not so obvious. There are lots of formal definitions of a vulnerability. For example in NIST Glossary there are 17 different definitions. The most popular one used in 13 documents is:...

Information Disclosure

qt is vulnerable to information disclosure attacks. The vulnerability exists as the QSharedMemory class in Qt 5.0.0, 4.8.x before 4.8.5, 4.7.x before 4.7.6, and other versions including 4.4.0 uses weak permissions world-readable and world-writable for shared memory segments, which allows local...

System x Secure Boot Vulnerability - Lenovo Support US

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AIX 7.2 TL 0 : xorg (IJ11546)

https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-14665 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-14665 X.Org X server could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper validation of command line parameters. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the...

Missing System x Flash Memory Write Protection Lock Bit - Lenovo Support US

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Missing System x Flash Memory Write Protection Lock Bit - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-24477 Potential Impact: Denial of service Severity: High Scope of Impact: Lenovo-specific CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-9085 Summary Description: A write protection lock bit was left unset after boot on an older generation of System x server, potentially allowing an...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: xorg-x11-server-1.19.6-10.fc28

X.Org X11 X server...

GLSA-201810-09 : X.Org X Server: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201810-09 X.Org X Server: Privilege escalation An incorrect permission check for -modulepath and -logfile options when starting Xorg. X server allows unprivileged users with the ability to log in to the system via physical console...

xorg-x11-server: Incorrect permission check in Xorg X server allows for privilege escalation

An incorrect permission check for -modulepath and -logfile options when starting Xorg X server allows unprivileged users with the ability to log in to the system via physical console to escalate their privileges and run arbitrary code under root privileges...

X.Org X Server: Privilege escalation

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description An incorrect permission check for -modulepath and -logfile options when starting Xorg. X server allows unprivileged users with the ability to log in to the system via physical console to...

X.Org Flaw Allows Privilege Escalation in Linux Systems

A local privilege-escalation and file-overwrite vulnerability in X.Org X server opens the door to trivial compromise in Linux systems that use the open-source software. The X server is a core graphics and windowing technology that can be found in most Linux and BSD distributions that use a...

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 ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: libxkbcommon-0.8.2-1.fc28

libxkbcommon is the X.Org library for compiling XKB maps into formats usabl e by the X Server or other display servers...

CVE-2018-14600

An out of bounds write, limited to NULL bytes, was discovered in libX11 in functions XListExtensions and XGetFontPath. The length field is considered as a signed value, which makes the library access memory before the intended buffer. An attacker who can either configure a malicious X server or...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-14598

An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later on, leading to DoS segmentation fault...

Code injection

Some Lenovo System x server BIOS/UEFI versions, when Secure Boot mode is enabled by a system administrator, do not properly authenticate signed code before booting it. As a result, an attacker with physical access to the system could boot unsigned code...

CVE-2017-3775

CVE-2017-3775 affects Lenovo System x server BIOS/UEFI where, when Secure Boot is enabled, some versions fail to properly authenticate signed code before boot. This could allow an attacker with physical access to boot unsigned code. Lenovo’s advisory LEN-20241 recommends applying the relevant BIO...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libXfont (SUSE-SU-2018:0334-1)

This update for libXfont fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13720: Improper check for end of string in PatterMatch caused invalid reads bsc1054285 - CVE-2017-13722: Malformed PCF file could have caused DoS or leak information bsc1049692 - Prevent the X server from...