Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3905-1 xorg-server -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 09 Jul 2017
- Affected Packages:
- xorg-server
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 867492.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-10971, CVE-2017-10972. - More information:
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Two security issues have been discovered in the X.org X server, which may lead to privilege escalation or an information leak.
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.16.4-1+deb8u1.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u1. Setups running root-less X are not affected.
For the testing distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.19.3-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.19.3-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your xorg-server packages.