Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4000-1 xorg-server -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 17 Oct 2017
- Affected Packages:
- xorg-server
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-12176, CVE-2017-12177, CVE-2017-12178, CVE-2017-12179, CVE-2017-12180, CVE-2017-12181, CVE-2017-12182, CVE-2017-12183, CVE-2017-12184, CVE-2017-12185, CVE-2017-12186, CVE-2017-12187, CVE-2017-13721, CVE-2017-13723.
- More information:
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the X.Org X server. An attacker who's able to connect to an X server could cause a denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.16.4-1+deb8u2.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your xorg-server packages.