Re: Question about CVE for X!! DoS

[Julien Cristau <jcristau () debian org>]

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