X.Org Server 1.16.3 Released To Fix Security Issues

Written by Michael Larabel in X.Org on 20 December 2014 at 09:57 AM EST. 8 Comments
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Made public earlier this month was a huge batch of X.Org Server security vulnerabilities with some of the issues dating back to the late 1980s. Now X.Org Server 1.16.3 is available to address these problems.

Julien Cristau of Debian announced the X.Org Server 1.16.3 release on Saturday morning. The primary focus of this release is on correcting the security issues within the GLX, DIX, XV, DRI3, RENDER, and other areas of the xorg-server code-base affected by outstanding security problems.

The list of changes in xorg-server 1.16.3 can be found via the release announcement.
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