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Offline nick65go

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Xorg vulnerabilities, again because AI work
« on: October 07, 2026, 04:50:42 AM »
Another Dozen (=12) Vulnerabilities Found In The X.Org Server & XWayland
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-12-New-Issues-2026
These issues are present in versions prior to the new xorg-server-21.1.25 and xwayland-24.1.14.

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Re: Xorg vulnerabilities, again because AI work
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2026, 05:19:26 PM »
Ok but as long as those security bugs are not remote execute bugs there is little to nothing to worry about. Even if some of them are from remote vector does it mean that standard TCL installation with Xorg-7.7.tcz installed from repo will be exploitable? See, many features are disabled in order to lower depends for packages and in order to save space, memory etc. And I think Xorg doen't listen on 0.0.0.0 by default.

But keep an eye on tools that listens on network interfaces. There was some bugs in busybox dhcp client. Busybox is core of every tcl and other embedded tiny linux distros.

The other thing is there is no LTS (older and mature) kernel to select from and I understand supporting another kernel may cost more but I think LTS are just more secure and more stable (don't comes with regressions). I am going to say the first thing to protect is kernel because Linux is monolithic and single bug in kernel leads to code execution in kernel mode. There are some apis for user space drivers (EL0 drivers in arm) but make rare use of. I suggest 'git clone'ing linux repo, select lts branch, make olddefconfig, and then build kernel Image.gz and you can compile with modules built-in or without. And if single new release comes to world you just do 'git pull' and make recompiles only files that were modified or files that depend on files that were modified by recent release. By making dirty builds you save time and stay secure.

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Re: Xorg vulnerabilities, again because AI work
« Reply #2 on: Today at 12:23:09 PM »
https://www.phoronix.com/news/17-Vulnerabilities-Xorg-Libs17 
More Security Vulnerabilities Made Public For X.Org Libraries 
Updated versions include libX11 1.8.14, libXi 1.8.4, libXpm 3.5.20, libXrender 0.9.13, and libXtst 1.2.6.
I do not like / dislike too much Wayland, but Xorg /x11 is systematically ... to say it polite ... not anymore the best for daily security or speed IF you are not constrained (at end of the year 2026) by resources (RAM, CPU, HDD).

... What happened is every major distro switched over to wayland by default: Ubuntu. Debian. RHEL. SUSE. Fedora. Even Arch heavily defaults to wayland these days. Any remaining X11-based development is either life support for Xorg while the last stragglers migrate off, or small forks trying desperately to keep it alive without understanding the burden they've signed up for.
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