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Slackware 15.0: 2023-347-01 Critical: Xorg-server Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Latest enhancements to xorg-server within Slackware address security flaws, strengthening safeguards against potential threats.
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-i586-10_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes two security issues: Out-of-bounds memory write in XKB button actions. Out-of-bounds memory read in RRChangeOutputProperty and RRChangeProviderProperty. For more information, see: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2023-December/061517.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6377 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6478 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-10_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-10_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-i586-10_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-i586-9_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes two security issues: Out-of-bounds memory write in XKB button actions. Out-of-bounds memory read in RRChangeOutputProperty and

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical security fix Slackware memory issue Xorg-server

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: 5065df8537bef75dc7ffde17aa11f46f xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-10_slack15.0.txz 11c84ae8ec6a1d73d61f5ddb96c4067d xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-10_slack15.0.txz 0b764f40f2e595eacb196b2488e763e9 xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-10_slack15.0.txz 7b9183ff3e37d690656b842271594fe8 xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-i586-10_slack15.0.txz 8c6c7932e873f338257993f49f927964 xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-i586-9_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: da39c16aaafb5ec7d1a6eee65f8d8907 xorg-server-1.20.14-x86_64-10_slack15.0.txz c580b794181367dc804a933405ef1b6a xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-x86_64-10_slack15.0.txz db09cf6d5b4537841cb853eb4741d32c xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-x86_64-10_slack15.0.txz 84fba92b3df08bf3a439e411809ccde9 xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-x86_64-10_slack15.0.txz 93f52b3bc807038878c247b0f0d919e3 xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-x86_64-9_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: e9650746a65f118b4781e10786a4874b x/xorg-server-21.1.10-i586-1.txz f086a4ddbc545608eefa2714e1a1989b x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.10-i586-1.txz b3645e16f3ad489ef967ad12a6ddcfb4 x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.10-i586-1.txz 6fa25c40cf42830cc87745dc05c5452c x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.10-i586-1.txz d4835717765da3d0164c2d7e153e35ba x/xorg-server-xwayland-23.2.3-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 17293df09996e5f8b21c396208e762ef x/xorg-server-21.1.10-x86_64-1.txz 33fe37ac542d5a84aca927596dcea037 x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.10-x86_64-1.txz 651bd878005ed1dd9b97e6459543282d x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.10-x86_64-1.txz 1bffc1de5d6627a1aca85c6dee6ec917 x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.10-x86_64-1.txz da4941dc6da69b3a0f7b0467127e6301 x/xorg-server-xwayland-23.2.3-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory critical security fix Slackware memory issue Xorg-server

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Installation Instructions

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

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