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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2006-1 libxdmcp -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

25 Nov 2019

Affected Packages:

libxdmcp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-2625.

More information:

It has been found, that libxdmcp, an X11 Display Manager Control Protocol library, uses weak entropy to generate keys.

Using arc4random_buf() from libbsd should avoid this flaw.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.1.1-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxdmcp packages.

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