X.Org Hit Hard By A Large Batch Of Security Vulnerabilities

  • 9 December 2014
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Some of these go back as far as 1987!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Published on 09 December 2014 12:36 PM EST
Written by Michael Larabel in X.Org

 
Last year a batch of X.Org libraries were hit by security vulnerabilities and the researcher who discovered these issues called X.Org security a disaster and even "it's worse than it looks". Today, a big batch of these X.Org vulnerabilities were made public. Many of these issues date back 20 years or more.

The X.Org Foundation announced publicly today, "Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way the X server code base handles requests from X clients, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."

These latest vulnerabilities can lead to a denial of service or lead to arbitrary code execution. These issues date back to the 80's and 90's -- thus affecting most X.Org running systems out there. The oldest of these vulnerabilities go back to 1987 with X11 core protocol requests.
 
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