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libX11: unbounded recursion leading to stack-overflow

🗓️ 13 Oct 2014 21:06:02Reported by RedHatType 
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libX11 has two overflows from unbounded recursion while processing user files; a crafted file could crash an X11 client.

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FreeBSD		xorg -- protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries
23 May 201300:00
–freebsd
Amazon		Medium: libX11, libXcursor, libXfixes, libXi, libXrandr, libXrender, libXres, libXt, libXv, libXvMC, libXxf86dga, libXxf86vm, libdmx, xorg-x11-proto-devel
22 Nov 201400:00
–amazon
Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux AMI : libX11 / libXcursor,libXfixes,libXi,libXrandr,libXrender,libXres,libXt,libXv,libXvMC,libXxf86dga,libXxf86vm,libdmx,xorg-x11-proto-devel (ALAS-2014-452)
26 Nov 201400:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		CentOS 6 : libX11 / libXcursor / libXext / libXfixes / libXi / libXinerama / libXp / libXrandr / etc (CESA-2014:1436)
12 Nov 201400:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Debian DSA-2693-1 : libx11 - several vulnerabilities
28 May 201300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Fedora 19 : libX11-1.5.99.901-3.20130524gita3bdd2b09.fc19 (2013-9079)
28 May 201300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Fedora 18 : libX11-1.5.99.901-3.20130524gita3bdd2b09.fc18 (2013-9151)
28 May 201300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		FreeBSD : xorg -- protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries (2eebebff-cd3b-11e2-8f09-001b38c3836c)
5 Jun 201300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		GLSA-201405-07 : X.Org X Server: Multiple vulnerabilities
16 May 201400:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		HP-UX PHSS_43690 : s700_800 11.31 X/Motif Runtime Patch
1 Oct 201500:00
–nessus
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux6ppclibx110:1.6.0-2.2.el6libX11-0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.ppc.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6ppc64libx110:1.6.0-2.2.el6libX11-0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6s390libx110:1.6.0-2.2.el6libX11-0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.s390.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6s390xlibx110:1.6.0-2.2.el6libX11-0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6x86_64libx110:1.6.0-2.2.el6libX11-0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6anylibx110:1.6.0-2.2.el6.i686libX11-0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.i686.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6anylibx11-common0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.noarchlibX11-common-0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.noarch.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6ppclibx11-debuginfo0:1.6.0-2.2.el6libX11-debuginfo-0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.ppc.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6ppc64libx11-debuginfo0:1.6.0-2.2.el6libX11-debuginfo-0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6s390libx11-debuginfo0:1.6.0-2.2.el6libX11-debuginfo-0:1.6.0-2.2.el6.s390.rpm
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7.7High risk
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CVSS 26.8
EPSS0.01576
CWE-788
X11 librarybuffer overflowunbounded recursioncrafted fileunix
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