Security Information / 2014 / Security Information -- DSA-3095-1 xorg-server

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3095-1 xorg-server -- security update

Date Reported:

10 Dec 2014

Affected Packages:

xorg-server

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8091, CVE-2014-8092, CVE-2014-8093, CVE-2014-8094, CVE-2014-8095, CVE-2014-8096, CVE-2014-8097, CVE-2014-8098, CVE-2014-8099, CVE-2014-8100, CVE-2014-8101, CVE-2014-8102.

More information:

Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in the X.org X server, which may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.4-6+deb7u5.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.16.2.901-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xorg-server packages.