Debian-LTS alert DLA-218-1 (xorg-server)

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Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org> 
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debian-lts-announce@lists.debian.org 
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[SECURITY] [DLA 218-1] xorg-server security update 
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Fri, 1 May 2015 12:55:08 +0200
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<20150501105507.GB739@minobo.das-netzwerkteam.de>
Package        : xorg-server
Version        : 2:1.7.7-18+deb6u2
CVE ID         : CVE-2015-0255

Olivier Fourdan discovered that missing input validation in the Xserver's
handling of XkbSetGeometry requests may result in an information leak or
denial of service.

This upload to Debian squeeze-lts fixes the issue by not swapping
XkbSetGeometry data in the input buffer any more and checking strings'
length against request size.

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