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Slackware 15.0: 2024-094-01 Critical: Xorg-Server Data Leakage Fix

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Calendar Grey April 3, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated xorg-server packages for both Slackware 15.0 and -current address severe security vulnerabilities; make certain your system is up to date.
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-i586-12_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: Heap buffer overread/data leakage in ProcXIGetSelectedEvents. Heap buffer overread/data leakage in ProcXIPassiveGrabDevice. Heap buffer overread/data leakage in ProcAppleDRICreatePixmap. Use-after-free in ProcRenderAddGlyphs. For more information, see: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2024-April/003497.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31080 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31081 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31082 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31083 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-12_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-12_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-i586-12_slack15.0.txz:

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical patch Slackware data leakage xorg-server heap buffer

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 package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-i586-11_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-x86_64-11_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 1f603c1368faa820d0f975f411ae0c41 xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-12_slack15.0.txz e59f8ec76a3828ac1d49c435df072f66 xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-12_slack15.0.txz 0ad3a7c8479c3b61ea0942b94efd27a3 xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-12_slack15.0.txz 212359a07f94f51ee5848eb4825b22ce xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-i586-12_slack15.0.txz ca7ee08a54569f4f23822084014bf83e xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-i586-11_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: e35adc6f3ddd2a626d45464363b62efe xorg-server-1.20.14-x86_64-12_slack15.0.txz d096a062758d94dfd89a553c4c28cf61 xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-x86_64-12_slack15.0.txz ab02a77825ee590502740921bcef813d xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-x86_64-12_slack15.0.txz 8f258e0b0463e213d88e0d91cf5ac7b1 xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-x86_64-12_slack15.0.txz 8e89a0d891fc3c61c9a9a62438563dec xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-x86_64-11_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: d8b62a448a2c21fbf5b2dcc53e6d6f0e x/xorg-server-21.1.12-i586-1.txz 7ded182f2c4402184b304bf57a069ebd x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.12-i586-1.txz 6817075f09d7da8fa97a38251c7ed057 x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.12-i586-1.txz 1ed9e41bbe460a7b64f67e29a7087061 x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.12-i586-1.txz 1d6e03918c4b9c8e0cd11ee2b016ba6a x/xorg-server-xwayland-23.2.5-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 6a042c5acf3008fe81acdb99b4f18888 x/xorg-server-21.1.12-x86_64-1.txz 1b08420cdbb14f976ed8b64864e69c01 x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.12-x86_64-1.txz df2d61f8872c9506951cf929a4267689 x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.12-x86_64-1.txz 2b5fb68e19b9570fcbdc0cdf2f223ceb x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.12-x86_64-1.txz b3603890c6a3db5695711abd59a74add x/xorg-server-xwayland-23.2.5-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical patch Slackware data leakage xorg-server heap buffer

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Installation Instructions

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

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