[opensuse] CVE-2018-14665 - Xorg
Interesting: "Security This two-year-old X.org give-me-root hole is so trivial to exploit, you can fit it in a single tweet" https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/25/x_org_server_vulnerability/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:44:40AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Interesting:
"Security This two-year-old X.org give-me-root hole is so trivial to exploit, you can fit it in a single tweet" https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/25/x_org_server_vulnerability/
Yes. It is a good thing that we stopped shipping the X server as setuid root several years ago. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 10/26/2018 08:51 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/25/x_org_server_vulnerability/ Yes. It is a good thing that we stopped shipping the X server as setuid root several years ago.
Knew you guys would have been all over it! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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