Important: xorg-x11-server

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the X.Org X server and Xwayland when processing X11 Present extension notifications. Improper error handling during notification creation can leave dangling pointers that lead to a use-after-free condition. This can cause memory corruption or a crash, potential...

Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerabilities

In Xext/shm, the shmseg resource id can belong to a non-existing client and abort X server with FatalError "client not in use", or overwrite existing segment of another existing client CVE-2017-13721. Generating strings for XKB data used a single shared static buffer, which offered several...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xorg-server-1.18.3-i586-4slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes two security issues: Xext/shm: Validate shmseg...