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xorg-server -- privilege escalation

Affected packages
		xorg-server	=	6.9.0

Details

VuXML ID	61534682-b8f4-11da-8e62-000e0c33c2dc
Discovery	2006-03-20
Entry	2006-03-21

Daniel Stone of X.Org reports:

During the analysis of results from the Coverity code review of X.Org, we discovered a flaw in the server that allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, or cause a denial of service by overwriting files on the system, again with root privileges.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2006-0745
URL	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6213