CVE-2017-13723

Several security issues were fixed in the XOrg X server ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the XOrg X server An attacker who's able to connect to an X server could cause a denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1164-1+deb8u2 For the stable distribution (stretch), these proble ...

In XOrg Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1194, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp ...

A stack buffer overflow was found in xkbtextc, which didn't handle xkb formatted string output safely due to a single shared static buffer The fix introduces a ring of resizable buffers to avoid problems when strings end up longer than anticipated This vulnerability may potentially lead to privilege escalation when the xorg-server is running wit ...