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Gentoo: GLSA-200608-25 High: X.org Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey August 28, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
Address the elevated permission vulnerabilities within X.org and its related libraries, referencing the critical security advisory released by Gentoo.
X.org, libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xtrans, and xterm are vulnerable to local privilege escalations because of unchecked setuid() calls

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-25 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: X.org and some X.org libraries: Local privilege escalations Date: August 28, 2006 Bugs: #135974 ID: 200608-25

Synopsis ======= X.org, libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xtrans, and xterm are vulnerable to local privilege escalations because of unchecked setuid() calls.
Background ========= X.org is an implementation of the X Window System.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-apps/xdm < 1.0.4-r1 >= 1.0.4-r1 2 x11-apps/xinit < 1.0.2-r6 >= 1.0.2-r6 3 x11-apps/xload < 1.0.1-r...

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