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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:09:49 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE id request: Debian/Ubuntu specific issue in
xvfb-run (xorg)
* [2009-05-05 17:20:22 +0200] Nico Golde wrote:
>Hi,
>* Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de> [2009-05-05 17:18]:
>> can I get a CVE id for http://bugs.debian.org/526678
>>
>> The xvfb-run script used in Debian insecurely passes the X
>> magic cookie via the commandline so it's an easy thing to
>> grab it with system access.
>
>YFYI, our maintainer just told me that he thinks this is included
>since Fedora 10 in Fedora as well...
Thanks for that. It is in Fedora 10; I have to see if it's in older
versions.
--
Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team
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