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X.Org Server 21.1.17 & XWayland 24.1.7 Fix The Latest Batch Of Security Issues


The X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 point releases were issued today to fix the latest batch of security issues.

These researchers from Germany's ERNW security firm tracked down six more issues with the X.Org Server codebase: All of these issues gave me a feeling that the source code itself can best describe: party_like_its_1989 = TRUE;" More details in the blog post over at Insinuator.net.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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