USN-4905-2: X.Org X Server vulnerability<\/p>\n
USN-4905-1 fixed a vulnerability in X.Org. This update provides
\nthe corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.<\/p>\n
Original advisory details:<\/p>\n
Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled USN-4905-2: X.Org X Server vulnerability USN-4905-1 fixed a vulnerability in X.Org. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain lengths of XInput extension ChangeFeedbackControl requests. An attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Source: USN-4905-2: X.Org X Server vulnerability<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-42298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42299,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42298\/revisions\/42299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n certain lengths of XInput extension ChangeFeedbackControl requests. An
\n attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a
\n denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
\nSource: USN-4905-2: X.Org X Server vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"