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Ubuntu 9.10 X.org Critical Security Advisory: Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2010
Scroller Ubuntu Esm H88
Julien Truchot disclosed serious vulnerabilities regarding Wayland session security and possible unauthorized system access in this notification.
Loïc Minier discovered that xvfb-run did not correctly keep the X.org session cookie private

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security advisory critical access control Ubuntu remote execution X.org session cookie

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security advisory critical access control Ubuntu remote execution X.org session cookie

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