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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2364-1 (xorg)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.6
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
12 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xorg announced via advisory DSA 2364-1.
Insight
Insight
The Debian X wrapper enforces that the X server can only be started from a console. vladz discovered that this wrapper could be bypassed. The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 7.5+8+squeeze1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:7.6+10.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your xorg packages.