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Message-ID: <20130705210639.GP28839@betterave.cristau.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 23:06:39 +0200
From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, kseifried@...hat.com
Cc: security@...e.de, Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>
Subject: Re: Question about CVE for X!! DoS
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 14:50:17 -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00023.html
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815583
>
> Lists no CVE? I assume it needs one, or did upstream handle this?
>
If you can connect to an X server, DoSing it is trivial (think
XGrabServer). This has never been considered a security issue AFAIK.
Cheers,
Julien
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