[slackware-security] libX11

New libX11 packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libX11-1.6.6-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes some security issues: Fixed crash on invalid reply...

Rootstealer - X11 Trick To Inject Commands On Root Terminal

This is simple example of new attack that using X11. Program to detect when linux user opens terminal with root and inject intrusive commands in terminal with X11 lib. Video of Proof of concept The proposal of this video is use the tool rootstealer to spy all gui windows interactions and inject...

Security Bulletin: Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities affects IBM Security Guardium (multiple CVEs)

Summary IBM Security Guardium is vulnerable to several possible remote attacks Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-4881 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the CORBA component has complete confidentiality impact, complete integrity impact, and complete...

drm, libICE, libX11, libXaw, libXcursor, libXdmcp, libXfixes, libXfont, libXfont2, libXi, libXpm, libXrandr, libXrender, libXt, libXtst, libXv, libXvMC, libXxf86vm, libdrm, libepoxy, libevdev, libfontenc, libinput, libvdpau, libwacom, libxcb, libxkbcommon, libxkbfile, mesa, vulkan, xcb, xkeyboard, xorg security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:1865 An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

X.org X11 libraries security, bug fix and enhancement update

libICE 1.0.9-9 - Add upstream patch to not pull libbsd - Add custom patch for Fedora 24 & 25 1.0.9-8 - Fix changelog 1.0.9-7 - Use libbsd for randoms CVE-2017-2626, rhbz1427715 1.0.9-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora26MassRebuild 1.0.9-5 - Force disable documentation generatio...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xorg-x11-libX11 (SUSE-SU-2017:0644-1)

This update for xorg-x11-libX11 fixes the following issues : - a regression introduced by the security fix for CVE-2013-1997 bnc824294. Keyboard mappings for special characters on Non-English keyboards might have been broken. bnc1019642 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the precedi...

[SECURITY] [DLA 684-2] libx11 regression update

Package : libx11 Version : 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u4 A possible invalid free was introduced in libx11 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u3, which could lead to application crashes or other issues. For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u4. We recommend that you upgrade your libx11...

DLA-684-2 libx11 - regression update

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CVE-2016-7943

The XListFonts function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving length fields, which trigger out-of-bounds write operations...

CVE-2016-7943

The XListFonts function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving length fields, which trigger out-of-bounds write operations...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7942

The XGetImage function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving image type and geometry, which triggers out-of-bounds read operations...

CVE-2016-7942

The XGetImage function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving image type and geometry, which triggers out-of-bounds read operations...

CVE-2016-7942

The XGetImage function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving image type and geometry, which triggers out-of-bounds read operations...

Out-of-bounds

The XGetImage function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving image type and geometry, which triggers out-of-bounds read operations...

Out-of-bounds

The XListFonts function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving length fields, which trigger out-of-bounds write operations...

CVE-2016-7942

The XGetImage function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving image type and geometry, which triggers out-of-bounds read operations...

CVE-2016-7942

The XGetImage function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving image type and geometry, which triggers out-of-bounds read operations...

CVE-2016-7942

CVE-2016-7942 : X.Org libX11 contains an out-of-bounds read in XGetImage() (pre-1.6.4) that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Several vendor advisories confirm this vulnerability in libX11 and reference the same description. IBM bulletins for AMM/CMM report this CVE with th...

CVE-2016-7943

The XListFonts function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving length fields, which trigger out-of-bounds write operations...

CVE-2016-7943

CVE-2016-7943 is a vulnerability in X.Org libX11 (pre-1.6.4) where the XListFonts length field handling can trigger an out-of-bounds write, potentially allowing remote X servers to gain privileges. Related entry CVE-2016-7942 covers out-of-bounds reads (XGetImage) in the same library. These issue...