Debian Security Advisory DSA 3224-1 (libx11 - security update)

Abhishek Arya discovered a buffer overflow in the MakeBigReq macro provided by libx11, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. Several other xorg packages e.g. libxrender will be recompiled against the fixed package after the release of this update. For detaile...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3224-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

CVE-2013-7439

Multiple off-by-one errors in the 1 MakeBigReq and 2 SetReqLen macros in include/X11/Xlibint.h in X11R6.x and libX11 before 1.6.0 allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted request, which triggers a buffer overflow...

Amazon Linux AMI : libX11 / libXcursor,libXfixes,libXi,libXrandr,libXrender,libXres,libXt,libXv,libXvMC,libXxf86dga,libXxf86vm,libdmx,xorg-x11-proto-devel (ALAS-2014-452)

Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way various X11 client libraries handled certain protocol data. An attacker able to submit invalid protocol data to an X11 server via a malicious X11 client could use either of these flaws to potentially...

Medium: libX11, libXcursor, libXfixes, libXi, libXrandr, libXrender, libXres, libXt, libXv, libXvMC, libXxf86dga, libXxf86vm, libdmx, xorg-x11-proto-devel

Issue Overview: Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way various X11 client libraries handled certain protocol data. An attacker able to submit invalid protocol data to an X11 server via a malicious X11 client could use either of these flaws t...

Scientific Linux Security Update : X11 client libraries on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20141014)

Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way various X11 client libraries handled certain protocol data. An attacker able to submit invalid protocol data to an X11 server via a malicious X11 client could use either of these flaws to potentially...

RedHat Update for X11 client libraries RHSA-2014:1436-02

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

libX11: buffer overflow in MakeBigReq macro

Multiple off-by-one errors in the 1 MakeBigReq and 2 SetReqLen macros in include/X11/Xlibint.h in X11R6.x and libX11 before 1.6.0 allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted request, which triggers a buffer overflow...

libX11: Multiple Array Index error leading to heap-based OOB write

Multiple buffer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 1.6 RC1 and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the 1 XAllocColorCells, 2 XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply, 3 XkbReadGeomShapes, 4 XkbReadGetGeometryReply...

X 11.0/3.3.3/3.3.4/3.3.5/3.3.6/4.0 libX11 _XAsyncReply() Stack Corruption

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1408/info A vulnerability exists in the XAsyncReply function of libX11. This function utilizes size information retrieved as part of a client supplied packet. This value is a signed integer. By forcing this value to be...

openSUSE Security Update : libX11 (openSUSE-SU-2013:1047-1)

This update of libX11 fixes several security issues. - U0001-integer-overflow-in-XQueryFont-on-32-bit-platfor ms-.patch, U0002-integer-overflow-in-XF86BigfontQueryFont-CVE-201 3-1.patch, U0003-integer-overflow-in-XListFontsWithInfo-CVE-2013-1 981.patch,...

Updated pidgin package fixes security vulnerabilities

Many places in the Yahoo! protocol plugin assumed incoming strings were UTF-8 and failed to transcode from non-UTF-8 encodings. This can lead to a crash when receiving strings that aren't UTF-8 CVE-2012-6152. A remote XMPP user can trigger a crash on some systems by sending a message with a...

Oracle Linux 5 : Moderate: / xorg-x11-apps/libX11 (ELSA-2007-0157)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0157 advisory. libX11-1.0.3-8.0.1.el5 1.0.3-8.0.1.el5 - Add int-overflow.patch 231694 xorg-x11-apps-7.1-4.0.1.el5 7.1-4.0.1.el5 - Add int-overflow.patch bug 231694. Tenable ha...

SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : xorg-x11-libX11 (SAT Patch Numbers 7842 / 7935)

This update of xorg-x11-libX11 fixes several security issues. Bug 815451/821664 CVE-2013-1981 / CVE-2013-1997 / CVE-2013-2004 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself...

Code injection

The 1 GetDatabase and 2 XimParseStringFile functions in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 1.6 RC1 and earlier do not restrict the recursion depth when processing directives to include files, which allows X servers to cause a denial of service stack consumption via a crafted file...

Buffer overflow

Multiple buffer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 1.6 RC1 and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the 1 XAllocColorCells, 2 XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply, 3 XkbReadGeomShapes, 4 XkbReadGetGeometryReply...

CVE-2013-2004

The 1 GetDatabase and 2 XimParseStringFile functions in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 1.6 RC1 and earlier do not restrict the recursion depth when processing directives to include files, which allows X servers to cause a denial of service stack consumption via a crafted file...

CVE-2013-1997

Multiple buffer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 1.6 RC1 and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the 1 XAllocColorCells, 2 XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply, 3 XkbReadGeomShapes, 4 XkbReadGetGeometryReply...

CVE-2013-1997

Multiple buffer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 1.6 RC1 and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the 1 XAllocColorCells, 2 XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply, 3 XkbReadGeomShapes, 4 XkbReadGetGeometryReply...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2004

The 1 GetDatabase and 2 XimParseStringFile functions in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 1.6 RC1 and earlier do not restrict the recursion depth when processing directives to include files, which allows X servers to cause a denial of service stack consumption via a crafted file...