X.Org: Buffer overflow in XRender extension

Background X.Org is X.Org Foundation's public implementation of the X Window System. Description X.Org miscalculates the size of a buffer in the XRender extension. Impact An X.Org user could exploit this issue to make the X server execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Workaround There ...

SUSE-SA:2006:016: xorg-x11-server

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2006:016 xorg-x11-server. A programming flaw in the X.Org X Server allows local attackers to gain root access when the server is setuid root, as is the default in SUSE Linux 10.0. This flaw was spotted by the Coverity project. Only SUS...

CVE-2006-0745

X.Org server xorg-server 1.0.0 and later, X11R6.9.0, and X11R7.0 inadvertently treats the address of the geteuid function as if it is the return value of a call to geteuid, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions and 1 execute arbitrary code via the -modulepath command line optio...

CVE-2006-0745

X.Org server xorg-server 1.0.0 and later, X11R6.9.0, and X11R7.0 inadvertently treats the address of the geteuid function as if it is the return value of a call to geteuid, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions and 1 execute arbitrary code via the -modulepath command line optio...

Code injection

X.Org server xorg-server 1.0.0 and later, X11R6.9.0, and X11R7.0 inadvertently treats the address of the geteuid function as if it is the return value of a call to geteuid, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions and 1 execute arbitrary code via the -modulepath command line optio...

CVE-2006-0745

X.Org server xorg-server 1.0.0 and later, X11R6.9.0, and X11R7.0 inadvertently treats the address of the geteuid function as if it is the return value of a call to geteuid, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions and 1 execute arbitrary code via the -modulepath command line optio...

CVE-2006-0745

The CVE concerns the X.Org X Server (xorg-server) 1.0.0 and later (X11R6.9.0, X11R7.0) where a faulty check tests the address of geteuid instead of the function result, allowing a local user to bypass restrictions and perform a Local Privilege Escalation. Impact described across sources: an unpri...

CVE-2006-0745

X.Org server xorg-server 1.0.0 and later, X11R6.9.0, and X11R7.0 inadvertently treats the address of the geteuid function as if it is the return value of a call to geteuid, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions and 1 execute arbitrary code via the -modulepath command line optio...

CVE-2006-0745

X.Org server xorg-server 1.0.0 and later, X11R6.9.0, and X11R7.0 inadvertently treats the address of the geteuid function as if it is the return value of a call to geteuid, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions and 1 execute arbitrary code via the -modulepath command line optio...

X.org / X11 X server privilege escalation

By using -modulepath it's possible to specify shared libraries location to attach user's library to suid application...

[CVE-2006-0745] X.Org Security Advisory: privilege escalation and DoS in X11R6.9, X11R7.0

X.Org Security Advisory, March 20th 2006 Local privilege escalation in X.Org server 1.0.0 and later; X11R6.9.0 and X11R7.0 CVE-ID: CVE-2006-0745 Overview: During the analysis of results from the Coverity code review of X.Org, we discovered a flaw in the server that allows local users to execute...

X.Org X11 (X11R6.9.0/X11R7.0) Local Root Privilege Escalation Exploit

No description provided by source. From Daniel Stone's Advisory xorg-server 1.0.0, as shipped with X11R7.0, and all release candidates of X11R7.0, is vulnerable. X11R6.9.0, and all release candidates, are vulnerable. X11R6.8.2 and earlier versions are not vulnerable. The rest is H D Moore from...

X.Org X11 (X11R6.9.0X11R7.0) - Local Privilege Escalation

X.Org X11 X11R6.9.0X11R7.0 - Local Privilege Escalation From Daniel Stone's Advisory xorg-server 1.0.0, as shipped with X11R7.0, and all release candidates of X11R7.0, is vulnerable. X11R6.9.0, and all release candidates, are vulnerable. X11R6.8.2 and earlier versions are not vulnerable. The rest...

X.Org X11 (X11R6.9.0/X11R7.0) - Local Privilege Escalation

From Daniel Stone's Advisory xorg-server 1.0.0, as shipped with X11R7.0, and all release candidates of X11R7.0, is vulnerable. X11R6.9.0, and all release candidates, are vulnerable. X11R6.8.2 and earlier versions are not vulnerable. The rest is H D Moore from metasploit Two second exploit, but if...

X.Org X11 (X11R6.9.0/X11R7.0) Local Root Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ===================================================================== X.Org X11 X11R6.9.0/X11R7.0 Local Root Privilege Escalation Exploit ===================================================================== From Daniel Stone's Advisory...

CVE-2005-4691

CVE-2005-4691 covers a local privilege issue in imake across NetBSD (before 2.0.3 and NetBSD-current before 2005-09-12) and certain X.Org/XFree86 versions. The vulnerability arises from a symlink attack on the temporary file used for the file.0 target, allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary...

CVE-2005-4691

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page...

CVE-2005-4691: Undefined Security Weakness

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page...

Ubuntu 4.10 : libxpm4 vulnerability (USN-27-1)

Chris Evans discovered several stack overflows in the versions of libXpm shipped by X.Org, XFree86, and LessTif. These overflows were fixed in the Warty development tree before its release. Mathieu Herrb of OpenBSD subsequently discovered that the original patch was insufficient to address these...

Code injection

The XClientMessageEvent struct used in certain components of X.Org 6.8.2 and earlier, possibly including 1 the X server and 2 Xlib, uses a "long" specifier for elements of the l array, which results in inconsistent sizes in the struct on 32-bit versus 64-bit platforms, and might allow attackers t...