CVE-2011-4613

The CVE-2011-4613 issue affects the X.Org X wrapper (xserver-wrapper.c) in Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux, where input TTY verification can bypass access restrictions by misinterpreting stdin as the console TTY. This is a local vulnerability that could allow bypassing restrictions during X sta...

CVE-2009-1573

What is affected. xvfb-run 1.6.1 (Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora and possibly other OSes) has the flaw. The root cause described in the CVE context is that the X11 magic cookie (MCOOKIE) is exposed on the command line, which can be discovered by local users. Impact. Local privilege escalation by listing th...