UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13721

In X.Org Server aka xserver and xorg-server before 1.19.4, an attacker authenticated to an X server with the X shared memory extension enabled can cause aborts of the X server or replace shared memory segments of other X clients in the same session...

Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : xorg-server (SSA:2017-279-03)

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2017-279-03. The text itself is...

[ASA-201710-10] xorg-server: multiple issues

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201710-10 ========================================== Severity: Medium Date : 2017-10-08 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-13721 CVE-2017-13723 Package : xorg-server Type : multiple issues Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-432 Summary ======= The package...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server 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/xorg-server-1.18.3-i586-4slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes two security issues: Xext/shm: Validate shmseg...

xorg-server -- multiple vulnerabilities

Alan Coopersmith reports: X.Org thanks Michal Srb of SuSE for finding these issues and bringing them to our attention, Julien Cristau of Debian for getting the fixes integrated, and Adam Jackson of Red Hat for publishing the release...

X.Org libXfont catalogue.c file buffer overflow vulnerability

X.Org libXfont is an X font handling library for servers and utilities. A buffer overflow vulnerability in the X.Org libXfont catalogue.c file allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability by submitting a special request that could crash the application or execute arbitrary code...

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...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xorg-server-1.18.3-i586-3slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes two security issues: A user...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : xorg-server (SSA:2017-227-01)

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2017-227-01. T...

[ASA-201708-11] xorg-server: multiple issues

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201708-11 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2017-08-14 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-10971 CVE-2017-10972 Package : xorg-server Type : multiple issues Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-341 Summary ======= The package...

USN-3362-1 xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled endianness conversion of certain X events. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use this issue to crash the server, or possibly execute arbitrary code as an administrator. CVE-2017-10971 It was...

Debian DLA-1026-1 : xorg-server security update

CVE-2017-10971 A user authenticated to an X Session could crash or execute code in the context of the X Server by exploiting a stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events. CVE-2017-10972 Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server allowed...

openSUSE Security Update : xorg-x11-server (openSUSE-2017-825)

This update for xorg-x11-server fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. bnc1035283 - Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the allowed range. - CVE-2017-10972: Initialize...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (SUSE-SU-2017:1860-1)

This update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fixes : - CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. bnc1035283 - Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the allowed range. - CVE-2017-10972: Initializ...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xorg-x11-libXdmcp (SUSE-SU-2017:1868-1)

This update for xorg-x11-libXdmcp fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-2625: The generation of session key in XDM using libXdmcp might have used weak entropy, making the session keys predictable bsc1025046 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directl...

openSUSE Security Update : xorg-x11-server (openSUSE-2017-826)

This update for xorg-x11-server fixes the following issues : - Improve retrieval of entropy for generating random authentication cookies bsc1025084 - Fix rendering with glamor acceleration. bsc1047154 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (SUSE-SU-2017:1861-1)

This update for xorg-x11-server fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. bnc1035283 - Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the allowed range. - CVE-2017-10972: Initialize...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (SUSE-SU-2017:1859-1)

This update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fixes : - CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. bnc1035283 - Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the allowed range. - CVE-2017-10972: Initializ...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for xorg-x11-server (openSUSE-SU-2017:1885-1)

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Security update for xorg-x11-server (important)

This update for xorg-x11-server fixes the following issues: - CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. bnc1035283 - Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the allowed range. - CVE-2017-10972: Initialize t...