Sun X Window Font Service buffer overflow

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Solaris X Window Font Service (XFS) daemon contains buffer overflow in Dispatch() function

Overview A remotely exploitable buffer overflow has been discovered in the Solaris X Window Font Service XFS daemon fs.auto. Description ISS X-Force released an Advisory today regarding a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in XFS. According to ISS, XFS is installed and running by default on the...

security flaw

Buffer overflow in X11 dissector in Ethereal 0.9.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code while Ethereal is parsing keysyms...

X Window 4.04.14.2 - System Oversized Font Denial of Service

X Window 4.04.14.2 - System Oversized Font Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4966/info X Window System behaves unpredictably when handling an overly large font size. If an attacker can pass an overly large font size to X Window System, it is possible to cause a denial of...

X Window 4.0/4.1/4.2 - System Oversized Font Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4966/info X Window System behaves unpredictably when handling an overly large font size. If an attacker can pass an overly large font size to X Window System, it is possible to cause a denial of service condition. Remote exploitation of this issue is...

SCO OpenServer 5.0.x - StartX Weak XHost Permissions

SCO OpenServer 5.0.x - StartX Weak XHost Permissions source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2731/info OpenServer is a Unix based operating system distributed by Santa Cruz Operations. A problem in access control of the X server could allow a local user to gain elevated privileges. When the X...

SCO OpenServer 5.0.x - StartX Weak XHost Permissions

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2731/info OpenServer is a Unix based operating system distributed by Santa Cruz Operations. A problem in access control of the X server could allow a local user to gain elevated privileges. When the X Window System is started via the xhost script,...

[SECURITY] [DSA 030-2] New m68k packages of XFree86 released

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 030-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 12, 2001 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : xfree86-1...

[SECURITY] [DSA-030-1] Multiple security problems in X

Package : xfree86-1 Vulnerability : buffer overflow, insecure tempfile handling, denial-of-service attack Debian-specific: no Chris Evans, Joseph S. Myers, Michal Zalewski, Alan Cox, and others have noted a number of problems in several components of the X Window System sample implementation from...

Linux news 18.12.00

Ядро 2.2.19-pre2 Alan Cox в новом тестовом патче ядра 2.2.19 внес изменения в VM, предложенные Andrea Arcangeli. Подробнее: ftp://ftp.kernel.org Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.4.0-test13-pre3 Третий пререлиз 13-го тестового ядра Linux 2.4. Подробнее:...

XFree86 3.3.5/3.3.6 - Xlib Display Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1805/info A vulnerability exists in xlib, the C language interface to the X Window System protocol. When applications linked to the xlib library are run, user-supplied values for the DISPLAY environment variable and the command-line argument -display are...

SCO Open Server 5.0.5 IRIX 6.2 ibX11X11 ToolkitAthena Widget Library - Local Buffer Overflow

SCO Open Server 5.0.5 IRIX 6.2 ibX11X11 ToolkitAthena Widget Library - Local Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/884/info SCO Openserver and SGI IRIX 6.2 confirmed, possibly others are vulnerable to several buffer overflows in various shared libraries related to the X...

SCO Open Server 5.0.5 / IRIX 6.2 ibX11/X11 Toolkit/Athena Widget Library - Local Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/884/info SCO Openserver and SGI IRIX 6.2 confirmed, possibly others are vulnerable to several buffer overflows in various shared libraries related to the X window system. This means that all programs which link to these libraries could be vulnerable to...