Summary
Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered
several security issues in the X.org X server, which may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy),
these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.4-6+deb7u5.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.16.2.901-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xorg-server packages.
Insight
The Xorg X server is an X server
for several architectures and operating systems, which is derived from the XFree86 4.x series of X servers.
Affected
xorg-server on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software
version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-8091, CVE-2014-8092, CVE-2014-8093, CVE-2014-8094, CVE-2014-8095, CVE-2014-8096, CVE-2014-8097, CVE-2014-8098, CVE-2014-8099, CVE-2014-8100, CVE-2014-8101, CVE-2014-8102 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
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