[SECURITY] [DSA 2683-1] libxi security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2683-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
May 23, 2013 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : libxi
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2013-1984 CVE-2013-1995 CVE-2013-1998

Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in
multiple components of the X.org graphics stack and the related
libraries: Various integer overflows, sign handling errors in integer
conversions, buffer overflows, memory corruption and missing input
sanitising may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:1.3-8.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:1.6.1-1+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:1.6.1-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxi packages.

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