Xorg security issues ?

GlitchyDot

GlitchyDot

Good day guys,
I have few laptops running FreeBSD and decided to run pkg audit -F and i have 2 vulnerabilities on one laptop and 1 on my other one , one of the vulnerabilities is urxvt-9.30 ( is vulnerable to a remote execution ) but second one is same on both laptops and its XORG https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/9fa7b139-c1e9-409e-bed0-006aadcf5845.html
Now im no techie, hacker or etc. but im trying to understand what is what with xorg, how does it affect me(us)
Im running FreeBSD 13.1-Release on both laptops.
Thank You.
 
pkg-audit(8) simply warns you about existing issues. Just wait for the affected ports/packages to be updated, this hasn't happened yet. The x11/rxvt-unicode port has been updated (both latest and quarterly) but the packages may not have been built yet. There are some issues with X (and related components) but they're not easily exploited as far as I can tell.

Exploits would also have to written specifically for FreeBSD. Not impossible to do, but the main focus for the "bad guys" is probably going to be Linux in this case. So there's not a lot of risk of getting hacked this way. You can usually get more details about a vulnerability if you lookup those CVE numbers: https://cve.mitre.org/
 
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