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Slackware 15.0: 2023-299-02 Critical: Xorg-Server Out-Of-Bounds

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
The latest xorg-server updates for Slackware resolve significant security vulnerabilities, enhancing system integrity and performance post-installation.
New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-9_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: OOB write in XIChangeDeviceProperty/RRChangeOutputProperty. Use-after-free bug in DestroyWindow. For more information, see: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5367 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5380 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-9_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-9_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-i586-9_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-i586-8_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: OOB write in XIChangeDeviceProperty/RRChangeOutputProperty. For more information, see: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.html

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Slackware security issues out-of-bounds Xorg

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated packages for Slackware 15.0:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:

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Slackware 15.0 packages: 323f754d385f509b1995ee2f13f06865 xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-9_slack15.0.txz b5161915f97533e595cbfdd48f5060f1 xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-9_slack15.0.txz b55e66f4ae9f9961fbefcbdaba8e8e0b xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-9_slack15.0.txz e89ee6d8c6fb6ce55a6abf7ea82184bf xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-i586-9_slack15.0.txz c8c95bc22ed849c931b671aaf7b9a841 xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-i586-8_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: f99ba1b65a5d139668cd8b5756468557 xorg-server-1.20.14-x86_64-9_slack15.0.txz 1b0968c85c757001c78723b11fdcc6a5 xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-x86_64-9_slack15.0.txz 68586e949d66e229ea63555dbc9347b5 xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-x86_64-9_slack15.0.txz fed63de2e35e06e863d6f61b2ddf08c8 xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-x86_64-9_slack15.0.txz 5957cc46128fcac3c5b5b54bffc45180 xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-x86_64-8_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: df7e432806264d6bf1e88ae2ea9de557 x/xorg-server-21.1.9-i586-1.txz df99fbd9aef28b08d26121afcad5ebce x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.9-i586-1.txz a0dacd2b189dbd98f92608c79f12687c x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.9-i586-1.txz d3c5c613e2f300d2196c114fd2f0fc99 x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.9-i586-1.txz 5702c7d521f03190643596b18b15c4cb x/xorg-server-xwayland-23.2.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 9105fa7c44383e8ddb7dc86286551435 x/xorg-server-21.1.9-x86_64-1.txz c3962abc946bac2f70c40ac9c37c06ea x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.9-x86_64-1.txz 4011927923a55056290ab9623b504b9d x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.9-x86_64-1.txz 4eceac09a6c165603b386db219fe0b83 x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.9-x86_64-1.txz f18c89e9f42b718161025e11706e8b0b x/xorg-server-xwayland-23.2.2-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory update critical Slackware security issues out-of-bounds Xorg

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg xorg-server-*.txz

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