[oi-dev] Security patch for Xorg 19.x

Peter Tribble peter.tribble at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 10:25:54 UTC 2018


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:13 AM Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabowski at kit.edu>
wrote:

> This Xorg patch should be immediately merged in Hipster:
>

It was merged and updated packages published last Thursday, by the looks of
it:

commit b694face8cd955399d90fae658d6a01fb1fa9c5b
Author: Aurelien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 25 19:31:53 2018 +0200

    xorg-server: CVE-2018-14665



> <
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/50c0cf885a6e91c0ea71fb49fa8f1b7c86fe330e
> >
>
> That check had been part of older Xorgs ,e.g., on oi_151a9.
>
> See the really nasty CVE-2018-14665:
> <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14665>
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