xlibre Xnest security advisory & bugfix releases –

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Posted by Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult on Oct 31

XLibre project security advisory
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As Xlibre Xnest is based on Xorg, it is affected by some security issues
which recently became known in Xorg:

CVE-2024-9632: can be triggered by providing a modified bitmap to the
X.Org server.
CVE-2024-9632: Heap-based buffer overflow privilege escalation in
_XkbSetCompatMap

See: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-9632

Affected versions:

* 24.1.0…
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