Solaris 9 (x86) : 118301-02

X11 6.6.1x86: libXpm patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : May/16/05 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Solaris 8 (x86) : 109863-05

X11 6.4.1x86: Font Server patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jan/11/08 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Debian DSA-1200-1 : qt-x11-free - integer overflow

An integer overflow has been found in the pixmap handling routines in the Qt GUI libraries. This could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code by providing a specially crafted image file and inducing the victim to view it in an application based on Qt...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 kernel are now available. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating syste...

Nvidia Graphics Driver 8774 - Local Buffer Overflow

/ 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 appear in all copies. THE SOFTWARE ...

Debian DSA-1171-1 : ethereal - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Ethereal network scanner, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-4333 It was discovered that the Q.2391 dissector is vulnerable to...

Slackware 10.2 / current : x11 (SSA:2006-259-01)

New x11 X.Org packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and -current to fix security issues due to overflows in font parsing. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2006-259-01. T...

CentOS 4 : xorg-x11 (CESA-2006:0665)

Updated X.org packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. X.org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level...

RHEL 4 : xorg-x11 (RHSA-2006:0665)

Updated X.org packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. X.org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level...

X.org and some X.org libraries: Local privilege escalations

Background X.org is an implementation of the X Window System. Description Several X.org libraries and X.org itself contain system calls to setuid functions, without checking their result. Impact Local users could deliberately exceed their assigned resource limits and elevate their privileges afte...

RHEL 4 : xorg-x11 (RHSA-2006:0634)

Updated X.org packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. X.org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level...

XFree86 / X11.org integer overflow

Integer overflow on PCF fonts parsing...

Slackware 10.2 / current : x11 (SSA:2006-207-02)

New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, fontconfig and freetype have been split out from the x11 packages in -current, so if you run -current you'll also need to install those new packages. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

[slackware-security] x11

New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, fontconfig and freetype have been split out from the x11 packages in -current, so if you run -current you'll also need to install those new packages. More details about the issues may be found here...

CVE-2006-3470

The Dell Openmanage CD launches X11 and SSH daemons that do not require authentication, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges...

CVE-2006-3470

The CVE-2006-3470 entry concerns the Dell OpenManage CD, where X11 and SSH daemons are launched without authentication. This allows remote attackers to gain privileges on affected systems. The available connected documents confirm the vulnerability is due to unauthenticated services started by th...

CentOS 4 : xorg-x11 (CESA-2005:396)

Updated X.org packages that fix several integer overflows are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. X.org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic...

FreeBSD : X11 server -- pixmap allocation vulnerability (a863aa74-24be-11da-8882-000e0c33c2dc)

Allocating large pixmaps by a client can trigger an integer overflow in the X server, potentially leading to execution of arbitrary code with elevated root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from t...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xorg-x11 (MDKSA-2006:081-1)

A problem was discovered in xorg-x11 where the X render extension would mis-calculate the size of a buffer, leading to an overflow that could possibly be exploited by clients of the X server. Update : Rafael Bermudez noticed that the patch for 2006 was mis-applied. This update resolves that issue...

SUSE-SA:2006:023: xorg-x11-server

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2006:023 xorg-x11-server. Miscalculation of a buffer size in the X Render extension of the X.Org X11 server could potentially be exploited by users to cause a buffer overflow and run code with elevated privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...