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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:

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.