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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2023-88d9904bcc Urgent: Wayland Security Patch

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Calendar Grey December 25, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent updates to Fedora's xorg-x11-server-Xwayland tackle significant security flaws, reducing the likelihood of denial of service incidents.
Fix for CVE-2023-6377, CVE-2023-6478

Summary

Xwayland is an X server for running X clients under Wayland.

Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2023-6377, CVE-2023-6478

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Fedora critical update software fix Xwayland

Change Log

* Wed Dec 13 2023 Peter Hutterer - 22.1.9-4 - Fix for CVE-2023-6377, CVE-2023-6478

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2023-77c8903bcb 2023-12-25 03:36:41.790097 Name : xorg-x11-server-Xwayland Product : Fedora 38 Version : 22.1.9 Release : 4.fc38 URL : https://www.x.org/wiki/ Summary : Xwayland Description : Xwayland is an X server for running X clients under Wayland.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-77c8903bcb' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 22.1.9
Release: 4.fc38
URL: https://www.x.org/wiki/
Summary: Xwayland

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Fedora critical update software fix Xwayland

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