xorg-server: information leak and denial of service

Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string lengths exceeding the...

xorg-server -- Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers.

Peter Hutterer reports: Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string...