Security News > 2018 > October > This two-year-old X.org give-me-root bug is so trivial to exploit, you can fit it in a single tweet

Overwrite arbitrary files? Load arbitrary code? As setuid root? Sure, why not! X.org, the X Window server used by various Linux and BSD operating systems, has – depending on its configuration – a security vulnerability that can be exploited to gain root powers.…

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