[slackware-security] libX11

New libX11 packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libX11-1.8.7-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: libX11: out-of-bounds memory access ...

USN-6407-1 libx11 vulnerabilities

Gregory James Duck discovered that libx11 incorrectly handled certain keyboard symbols. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious X server, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause libx11 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2023-43786

A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to an infinite loop within the PutSubImage function. This flaw allows a local user to consume all available system resources and cause a denial of service condition...

CVE-2023-43787

A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to an integer overflow within the XCreateImage function. This flaw allows a local user to trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / 15.0 / current libX11 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2023-276-01)

The version of libX11 installed on the remote host is prior to 1.8.7. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2023-276-01 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version numbe...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : libx11 vulnerabilities (USN-6407-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6407-1 advisory. Gregory James Duck discovered that libx11 incorrectly handled certain keyboard symbols. If a user were tricked into connecting to a...

CVE-2023-43785

A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to a boundary condition within the XkbReadKeySyms function. This flaw allows a local user to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43785

A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to a boundary condition within the XkbReadKeySyms function. This flaw allows a local user to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43787

A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to an integer overflow within the XCreateImage function. This flaw allows a local user to trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges...

11/libX11 multiple vulnerabilities

The X.Org project reports: CVE-2023-43785: out-of-bounds memory access in XkbReadKeySyms When libX11 is processing the reply from the X server to the XkbGetMap request, if it detected the number of symbols in the new map was less than the size of the buffer it had allocated, it always added room...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libX11 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2862)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libX11 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2845)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

PT-2023-6798

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libX11 affected versions not specified Description A vulnerability in the libX11 library is related to a boundary condition within the XkbReadKeySyms function, allowing a local user to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents ...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libX11 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2814)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libX11 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2790)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Oracle Linux 7 : X.org / X11 (ELSA-2018-3059)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-3059 advisory. freeglut 3.0.0-8 - HTTPS URLs - Pin soname to libglut.so.3 in the %files glob 3.0.0-7 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora28MassRebuild 3.0.0-6 -...

Oracle Linux 7 : Xorg (ELSA-2019-2079)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-2079 advisory. - Fixes for CVE-2018-15864, CVE-2018-15863, CVE-2018-15862, CVE-2018-15861, CVE-2018-15859 CVE-2018-15857, CVE-2018-15856, CVE-2018-15855,...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libX11 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2589)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : libX11 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2619)

According to the versions of the libX11 package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A vulnerability was found in libX11. The security flaw occurs because the functions in src/InitExt.c in libX11 do not check that the values...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libX11 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2619)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...