X.Org Security Advisory: CVE-2015-0255: Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers

2015-02-10 Thread Peter Hutterer
X.Org Security Advisory: Feb 10, 2015 - CVE-2015-0255 Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers === Description: Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server cod

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.17.1

2015-02-10 Thread Keith Packard
Fixes for CVE 2015-0255. See Peter's associated email for more details. Keith Packard (1): Release 1.17.1 Olivier Fourdan (2): xkb: Don't swap XkbSetGeometry data in the input buffer xkb: Check strings length against request size git tag: xorg-server-1.17.1 http://xorg.freede

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.16.4

2015-02-10 Thread Julien Cristau
This includes various fixes, including a regression from the previous security patches, plus today's xkb security fix (http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-02-10/) Thanks to Dave Airlie for collecting most of those. Cheers, Julien Adam Jackson (1): dix: make RegionInit