SuSE: Xorg and XFree (SUSE-SA:2008:003)

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SuSE: Xorg and XFree (SUSE-SA:2008:003)

LinuxSecurity.com: The X windows system is vulnerable to several kind of vulner- abilities that are caused due to insufficient input validation. The bugs range from crashing the X server to executing arbitrary code with the privilges of the X server process.

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PENMOUNT(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						       PENMOUNT(4)

NAME

       penmount - PenMount input driver

SYNOPSIS

       Section "InputDevice"
	 Identifier "idevname"
	 Driver "penmount"
	 Option "Device"   "devpath"
	 ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION

       penmount is an Xorg input driver for PenMount devices...

       The  penmount driver functions as a pointer input device, and may be used as the X server's core pointer.  THIS MAN PAGE NEEDS TO BE FILLED
       IN.

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

       What is supported...

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details and for options that can be used with all input drivers.	This section  only
       covers configuration details specific to this driver.

       Config details...

SEE ALSO

       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7).

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X Version 11						     xf86-input-penmount 1.4.1						       PENMOUNT(4)

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