HP Security Bulletin - A potential security vulnerability has been identified in the Xserver running on HP-UX. The vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Xserver.
bbb76e2c5fe43808f79b31fe18cac63ece8c8136c5f9a4fc547774bcde1f4bdfMandriva Linux Security Update Advisory - A vulnerability was discovered in the pixmap allocation handling of the X server that can lead to local privilege escalation. By allocating a huge pixmap, a local user could trigger an integer overflow that resulted in a memory allocation that was too small for the requested pixmap, leading to a buffer overflow which could then be exploited to execute arbitrary code with full root privileges.
3cf2154b69cec09589d62bdefa8ec6d90c741286aeedc640ff2242cb4a6b34d9Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200509-07 - X.Org is missing an integer overflow check during pixmap memory allocation. Versions less than 6.8.2-r3 are affected.
892e492456e0e544ed9fe829ea0dc72e2ac3b084ace7dba2c4825cd81bcd518fUbuntu Security Notice USN-182-1 - A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the pixmap allocation handling of the X server. By allocating a huge pixmap, a local user could trigger an integer overflow that resulted in a memory allocation that was too small for the requested pixmap. This resulted in a buffer overflow which could eventually be exploited to execute arbitrary code with full root privileges.
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