Trend Micro Uncovers Yet Another X.Org Server Vulnerability: CVE-2023-1393

[Johannes Truschnigg]

Hi!

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 02:29:05PM +0000, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> Subject: Trend Micro Uncovers Yet Another X.Org Server Vulnerability: CVE-2023-1393
> [...]
> How do I find out if my X.Org Server is running as root?

Check the output of (assuming you have procps-ng installed)

  $ ps -fp $(pidof -S, Xorg)

on your shell. If any of the resulting lines have "root" in their "UID"
column, that Xorg process is running under UID 0.

Hth!

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