Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years

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Lol not even reading it because I've always assumed that if there's an RCE on desktop it will inevitably lead to full system compromise.

😅

It's trust all the way down.
Is this news worthy? X is the classic example of how a code base becomes completely unmanageable
I love the link thumbnail!
By providing a modified bitmap to the X.Org Server, a heap-based buffer overflow privilege escalation can occur.

Maybe we should stop writing security critical software in memory unsafe languages. I now this vulnerability was introduced a long time ago, but given that major Wayland compositors are still written in C, something like this isn't too unlikely to happen again.
- Wait till bro find out the program written in the "memory safe language" depends on many libraries written in C
- The problem is a huge codebase that no one understands.
- Let's re-write all currently existing software in Rust, then there will be no more security holes, and every computer will be safe forever.
- major Wayland compositors are still written in C
  
  KWin is written in C++ but yes, it's not a "safe" language.
  
  something like this isn’t too unlikely to happen again.
  
  With at least three mainstream implementations – KWin, Mutter, and wlroots – it's highly unlikely that all would ever be equally affected by one bug.
I know Phoronix comments, but what's up with the Linux Mint hate?
- Tbf, there's 1 Mint comment and 1 reply to that comment.

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