Fwd: The importance of mutual authentication: Local Privilege Escalation in X11

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 11/18/20 11:29 AM, Demi M. Obenour wrote:
> Additionally, will libX11 also be updated?

libX11 1.4.0 and later don't have any local code to connect to X11
sockets, but instead call into libxcb to set them up.

libX11 does have transport/connection code for X Input Methods though,
using code from libxtrans (which is also used for InterClient
Exchange (ICE), font servers, etc.).

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