X.Org security advisory: October 25, 2018
Privilege escalation and file overwrite in X.Org X server 1.19 and later
Incorrect command-line parameter validation in the Xorg X server can
lead to privilege elevation and/or arbit
Fixes CVE-2018-14665 (local file overwrite bugs), and a trivial fix in
fbdevhw initialization. All users are advised to upgrade. Thanks to
Narendra Shinde and Thomas Hoger for the report, and Matthieu Herrb for
the fix.
Adam Jackson (1):
xserver 1.20.3
Matthieu Herrb (2):
Disable -log
Hi,
I'm writing some software that controls a presentation. I have a
presentation remote that appears as a keyboard, and it works to advance the
presentation as long as application has focus. What I would like to do is
to force that particular presentation remote always send its events to the
prese
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:16:24PM -0400, Eric Sokolowsky wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm writing some software that controls a presentation. I have a
> presentation remote that appears as a keyboard, and it works to advance the
> presentation as long as application has focus. What I would like to do is
> to fo
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:37:25PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:05 PM Daniel Stone wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 08:17, Peter Hutterer
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:49:24AM -0400, Harry Wentland wrote:
> > > > + \item Support free and open sou
