X.Org Security Advisory: Issues in X.Org X server prior to 21.1.14 and Xwayland prior to 24.1.4

2024-10-29 Thread Jose Exposito Quintana
X.Org Security Advisory: October 29, 2024 Issues in X.Org X server prior to 21.1.14 and Xwayland prior to 24.1.4 An issue has been found in the X server and Xwayland implementations published by X.Org for which we are releas

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 21.1.14

2024-10-29 Thread Olivier Fourdan
This release contains the fix for the issue reported in today's security advisory: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2024-October/003545.html * CVE-2024-9632 Additionally, it also contains several other fixes for glamor, Xnest, compilation warnings with newer compilers, FreeBSD issues

[ANNOUNCE] xwayland 24.1.4

2024-10-29 Thread Olivier Fourdan
This release contains the fix for the issue reported in today's security advisory: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2024-October/003545.html * CVE-2024-9632 José Expósito (1): Bump version to 24.1.4 Matthieu Herrb (1): xkb: Fix buffer overflow in _XkbSetCompatMap() git t

Keyboard config proper documentation?

2024-10-29 Thread Alan Grimes
Is there anything that could be described as clear and consise documentation of how keyboards should be configured in 2024? I bring this up again because this problem with arrow keys caused me several weeks of pain, grief, headache, toil, and misery... I solved the problem completely and, ahe