Tweetable Exploit for X.org Server Local Privilege Escalation (CVE-2018-14665) Released
by Paul Davis on October 26, 2018
A researcher has published a local privilege escalation exploit that fits in a single tweet for xorg-x11-server. Vendors are rolling out fixes and mitigation advice.
Background
On October 25, a tweetable proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a newly discovered local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in xorg-x11-server was released.