XOrg Server and Xwayland Patched Against Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

Posted by bob on Feb 4, 2024 6:30 PM EDT
LinuxSecurity.com - Hybrid RSS; By Anthony Pell
Mail this story
Print this story

Multiple security vulnerabilities have recently been discovered in the XOrg Server prior to 21.1.11, and Xwayland display implementations prior to 23.2.4. These vulnerabilities could potentially result in heap overflows, out-of-bounds writes, and local privilege escalation, potentially enabling attackers to view additional infrastructure to attack, add or delete users, or modify permissions of files or other users.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: Editorial, Security; Groups: Linux

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.