Debian 4.0 DSA-1372-1 Critical: Xorg-Server Local Escalation
debian
September 9, 2007
Aaron Plattner discovered a buffer overflow in the Composite extension
of the X.org X server, which can lead to local privilege escalation.
Topics Covered
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.1-21etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your xorg-server packages.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 1989 040b7079792c41cf036ab6c53dc9b4a4
Size/MD5 checksum: 623510 e631fd8b61a97e7f86acc8163e66877e
Size/MD5 checksum: 8388609 15852049050e49f380f953d8715500b9
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1028658 3d80f46705d...
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