AIX 7.1 TL 2 : X11.base.rte (U862346)

The remote host is missing AIX PTF U862346, which is related to the security of the package X11.base.rte. Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service...

AIX 7.1 TL 1 : X11.base.rte (U860766)

The remote host is missing AIX PTF U860766, which is related to the security of the package X11.base.rte. Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: libXfont-1.4.8-1.fc19

X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: libXfont-1.4.8-1.fc20

X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library...

Eterm 0.8.10,rxvt 2.6.1,PuTTY 0.48,X11R6 3.3.3/4.0 - Denial of Service

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1298/info xterm is a popular X11-based terminal emulator. If VT control-characters are displayed in the xterm, they can be interpreted and used to cause a denial of service attack against the client and even the host...

gdm 1.0 .x/2.0 .x BETA/2.2 .0 XDMCP Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1233/info A buffer overrun exists in the XDMCP handling code used in 'gdm', an xdm replacement, shipped as part of the GNOME desktop. By sending a maliciously crafted XDMCP message, it is possible for a remote attacker to...

NVIDIA Graphics Driver <= 8774 Local Buffer Overflow Exploit

No description provided by source. / Copyright c 2005 Matthieu Herrb Copyright c 2006 Derek Abdine, Marc Bevand Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice...

X11R6 3.3.3 Symlink Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/326/info There is a symlink vulnerability known to exist under most modern linux and NetBSD distributions. It involves /tmp/.X11-unix and the tendency to follow to/overwrite the file pointed to if a symlink. It may be...

FreeBSD 3.3,Linux Mandrake 7.0 'xsoldier' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/871/info Certain versions of FreeBSD 3.3 Confirmed and Linux Mandrake confirmed ship with a vulnerable binary in their X11 games package. The binary/game in question, xsoldier, is a setuid root binary meant to be run via ...

FreeBSD 3.3,Linux Mandrake 7.0 'xsoldier' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/871/info Certain versions of FreeBSD 3.3 Confirmed and Linux Mandrake confirmed ship with a vulnerable binary in their X11 games package. The binary/game in question, xsoldier, is a setuid root binary meant to be run via ...

Solaris 7.0/8 Xsun Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1140/info A buffer overrun vulnerability exists in the Xsun X11 server, as shipped as part of Solaris 7 and 8 from Sun Microsystems. By supplying a long argument to the -dev option normally used to set the output device, ...

Gnome 1.0/1.1,Group X 11.0,XFree86 X11R6 3.3.x/4.0 - Denial of Service

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1369/info A denial of service vulnerability exists in libICE, part of the X11 windowing system. Any libICE application which creates inet listening sockets can be remotely crashed. This is due to a bug in the handling of...

SUSE-SU-2015:0427-1 Recommended update for xorg-x11-server

This collective update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fixes: Fix a segmentation fault that can occur when X11 packets are forwarded between a client and a server with different endianess. bnc874903 Free software cursor backing pixmap when transition between screens. This fixes a crash...

SUSE-SU-2015:1025-1 Recommended update for xorg-x11-server

This collective update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fixes: Fix a segmentation fault that can occur when X11 packets are forwarded between a client and a server with different endianess. bnc874903 Free software cursor backing pixmap when transition between screens. This fixes a crash...

openSUSE Security Update : dbus-1 (openSUSE-SU-2014:0821-1)

dbus-1 was updated to fix a possible DoS CVE-2014-3477. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2014-434. The text description of this plugin is C SUSE LLC...

libXfont: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libXfont is an X11 font rasterisation library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXfont. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could use a specially crafted file to gain privileges, cause a Denia...

openSUSE Security Update : libpciaccess0 (openSUSE-SU-2011:1299-1)

Specially crafted font files could cause a buffer overflow in applications that use libXfont to load such files CVE-2011-2895. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update libpciaccess0-510...

openSUSE Security Update : xorg-x11-server (openSUSE-SU-2013:0937-1)

Uxf86-fix-flush-input-to-work-with-Linux-evdev-device.p atch - So when we VT switch back and attempt to flush the input devices, we don't succeed because evdev won't return part of an event, since we were only asking for 4 bytes, we'd only get -EINVAL back. This could later cause events to be...

openSUSE Security Update : xorg-x11-server (openSUSE-SU-2013:1965-1)

The X server was updated to fix a possible X server crash using invalid trapezoids. bnc853846 CVE-2013-6424 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2013-1033. The text...

openSUSE Security Update : xorg-x11 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0298-1)

Remote attackers could execute arbitrary commands as root by assigning specially crafted hostnames to X11 clients via XDMCP CVE-2011-0465. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update...