vulnerability

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-14665: xorg-x11-server security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 25, 2018
Added
Dec 4, 2019
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in xorg-x11-server before 1.20.3. An incorrect permission check for -modulepath and -logfile options when starting Xorg. X server allows unprivileged users with the ability to log in to the system via physical console to escalate their privileges and run arbitrary code under root privileges.

Solutions

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-commonhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-xephyrhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-xorg
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