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Bug#601878: xserver-xorg-core: no access control by default



Package: xserver-xorg-core
Version: 2:1.7.7-7
Severity: important

As discussed with KiBi, there is a fairly important security issue with 
the X server in squeeze.

Start a X or Xephyr server, with no -auth argument. It will accept all 
clients without a question. With -auth blahblah, as gdm does, it will, 
as expected, accept only authenticated connections.

The version in lenny behaves as expected and just refuses all 
connections unless passed -ac.

-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
: :' :
`. `'  “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone,
  `-    […] I will see what I can do for you.”  -- Jörg Schilling



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