Lord Satan wrote:
>>Btw the only changes to my system I can think of were some security updates,
>>mostly xorg but I cannot see any connection.
>
>
> After a lot of trouble I have verified that the xorg security update is the
> reason for lazarus stopping to work. I downgraded the xserver and all its
> dependencies manually and now lazarus starts again.
> For the time being I can keep the old version of xorg but I think this is a
> real problem as I like to keep my system updated in regard to security issues.
>
> These are the details about the vulnerability from the Ubuntu security notes:
>
> A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the
> pixmap allocation handling of the X server. By allocating a huge
> pixmap, a local user could trigger an integer overflow that resulted
> in a memory allocation that was too small for the requested pixmap.
> This resulted in a buffer overflow which could eventually be exploited
> to execute arbitrary code with full root privileges.
I had discover that problem too. Any solution for today other then
downgrading xorg (what's that?) ?
Regards
Boguslaw Brandys
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