[Xquartz-dev] x.org hole

[Ken Thomases]

On Oct 25, 2018, at 9:31 PM, nicolas bats <sl1200mk2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-October/002927.html <https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-October/002927.html>
> 
> are we impacted by this?

No, unless you're doing something very odd.

The vulnerability only affects systems where the X server is configured so that it has root privileges even when run by a non-privileged user.  XQuartz is not normally configured that way, or with any unusual privileges.  It just runs in your normal user account with your normal privileges.

Regards,
Ken

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