The vulnerability of the windowing system for building the graphical user interface of the xorg operating system in Astra Linux allows a hacker to alter the settings of the X-Session.

The vulnerability of the window system for creating a graphical user interface in the Astra Linux operating system’s xorg lies in an incorrect setting of the allow-user-xsession parameter in "/etc/X11/Xsession.options". Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a hacker to alter the default...

Debian DLA-1026-1 : xorg-server security update

CVE-2017-10971 A user authenticated to an X Session could crash or execute code in the context of the X Server by exploiting a stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events. CVE-2017-10972 Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server allowed...

Fedora 23 : lxdm-0.5.1-7.D20151007gite8f38708.fc23 (2015-44deee4d7a)

A bug is reported that session opened via LXDM allows any local users to connect X. This new package should fix this issue. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pango on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

An input sanitization flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way Pango displayed font files when using the FreeType font engine back end. If a user loaded a malformed font file with an application that uses Pango, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly,...

X.Org X Server/X Keyboard Configuration Database: Screen lock bypass

Background The X Keyboard Configuration Database provides keyboard configuration for various X server implementations. Description Starting with the =x11-base/xorg-server-1.11 package, the X.Org X Server again provides debugging functionality that can be used terminate an application that...

CentOS Update for pango CESA-2010:0140 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS 4 : pango (CESA-2011:0180)

Updated pango and evolution28-pango packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : pango (RHSA-2010:0140)

Updated pango and evolution28-pango packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Pango is a library used for the layout and rendering of...

gdm security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1364 Updated gdm packages that fix a security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The GNOME Display Manager GDM is a...

FreeBSD Ports: slim

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. 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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1756

SLiM Simple Login Manager 1.3.0 places the X authority magic cookie mcookie on the command line when invoking xauth from 1 app.cpp and 2 switchuser.cpp, which allows local users to access the X session by listing the process and its arguments...

Command injection

SLiM Simple Login Manager 1.3.0 places the X authority magic cookie mcookie on the command line when invoking xauth from 1 app.cpp and 2 switchuser.cpp, which allows local users to access the X session by listing the process and its arguments...

CVE-2009-1756

SLiM Simple Login Manager 1.3.0 places the X authority magic cookie mcookie on the command line when invoking xauth from 1 app.cpp and 2 switchuser.cpp, which allows local users to access the X session by listing the process and its arguments...

CVE-2009-1756

SLiM Simple Login Manager 1.3.0 places the X authority magic cookie mcookie on the command line when invoking xauth from 1 app.cpp and 2 switchuser.cpp, which allows local users to access the X session by listing the process and its arguments...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200611-03 (nvidia-drivers)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200611-03. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. 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 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 : ltsp vulnerability (USN-610-1)

Christian Herzog discovered that it was possible to connect to any LTSP client's X session over the network. A remote attacker could eavesdrop on X events, read window contents, and record keystrokes, possibly gaining access to private information. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted...

USN-610-1: LTSP vulnerability

Christian Herzog discovered that it was possible to connect to any LTSP client's X session over the network. A remote attacker could eavesdrop on X events, read window contents, and record keystrokes, possibly gaining access to private information...

OpenSSH privilege escalation

Local user can hijack X-session of different user because of invalid DISPLAY variable initialization...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : xinit vulnerability (USN-364-1)

A race condition existed that would allow other local users to see error messages generated during another user's X session. This could allow potentially sensitive information to be leaked. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu...

Fedora 7 : gdm-2.18.4-1.fc7 (2007-1362)

JLANTHEA reported a denial of service flaw in the way that gdm listens on its unix domain socket. Any local user can crash the locally running X session. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has...