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1998 Feb 03
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serious security problem in XKB
...is
probably affected too) is run in setuid or setgid enviroment (e.g. typical
XFree86 installation has XF86_* installed setuid root), local users can
exploit a "feature" of XKB implementation to execute arbitrary commands
with the extra privileges.
Quick vulnerability check:
$ Xserver -xkbdir ''id > /tmp/I_WAS_HERE;''
[exit X server]
$ grep root /tmp/I_WAS_HERE && echo ''Gotcha!''
Quick fix:
1. as usual chmod u-s,g-s all installed Xserver binaries (*)
2. use xdm or a SAFE and PARANOID wrapper to start Xserver
(*) and unsafe or not-paranoid-...
2009 Feb 18
0
[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.5.99.903
...RRTransformCompute
Damage re-used shadow scanout buffer using new transforms.
Handle the combination of panning and crtc transforms
mi: force the paired kbd device before CopyKeyClass. (#19574)
Make crtc_notify wrap/unwrap code do nothing unless mode code is inuse
Add XkbDir to Files config file section
Eliminate the shadow clear on transform change
Bump to 1.5.99.903
Matthias Hopf (5):
randr: Add monitor option "Panning" for initial panning configuration
randr: Fix error message for bad panning config
randr: Update initial scre...