SuSE 10 Security Update : xine (ZYPP Patch Number 4926)

Specially crafted rtsp-Streams could cause a buffer overflow in xine. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-0225 Additionally a security update of xorg-x11 revealed a bug in xine-ui. The xine user interface didn't display properly due to that. %NASLMINLEVEL...

SuSE 10 Security Update : xorg-x11-Xvnc (ZYPP Patch Number 4939)

The previous xorg-x11 security update contained a flaw. Due to this some applications using the shared memory extension did not work properly anymore. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

Debian DSA-1466-1 : xorg-server - several vulnerabilities

The X.org fix for CVE-2007-6429 introduced a regression in the MIT-SHM extension, which prevented the start of a few applications. This update provides updated packages for the xfree86 version included in Debian old stable sarge in addition to the fixed packages for Debian stable etch, which were...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : xorg-x11-Xvnc (xorg-x11-Xvnc-4933)

The previous xorg-x11 security update contained a flaw. Due to this some applications using the X shared memory extension did not work properly anymore. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Securit...

Fedora 7 : xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-16.fc7 (2008-0956)

When enabling the 'unredirect fullscreen windows' option, compiz will unredirect fullscreen windows to improve performace. However, unredirecting will as a side effect break any grabs on that window, which compromises most screensavers. This X server update suppresses this unintended side effect...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-15.fc7

X.Org X11 X server...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-39.fc8

X.Org X11 X server...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : xorg-server regression (USN-571-2)

USN-571-1 fixed vulnerabilities in X.org. The upstream fixes were incomplete, and under certain situations, applications using the MIT-SHM extension e.g. Java, wxWidgets would crash with BadAlloc X errors. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Multiple overflows were...

DTSA-110-1 xorg-server - multiple vulnerabilities

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xorg security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0031 Updated xorg-x11-server packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 18th January 2008 Th...

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6428

The ProcGetReservedColormapEntries function in the TOG-CUP extension in X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read the contents of arbitrary memory locations via a request containing a 32-bit value that is improperly used as an array index...

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6429

Multiple integer overflows in X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via 1 a GetVisualInfo request containing a 32-bit value that is improperly used to calculate an amount of memory for allocation by the EVI extension, or 2 a request containing valu...

USN-571-1: X.org vulnerabilities

Multiple overflows were discovered in the XFree86-Misc, XInput-Misc, TOG-CUP, EVI, and MIT-SHM extensions which did not correctly validate function arguments. An authenticated attacker could send specially crafted requests and gain root privileges. CVE-2007-5760, CVE-2007-6427, CVE-2007-6428,...

xorg security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0030 Updated xorg-x11 packages that fix several security issues 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. Updated 18th January 2008 The...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : xorg-x11-Xnest (xorg-x11-Xnest-4859)

This update fixes various Xserver security issues. File existence disclosure vulnerability CVE-2007-5958. XInput Extension Memory Corruption Vulnerability IDEF2888 CVE-2007-6427. TOG-CUP Extension Memory Corruption Vulnerability IDEF2901 CVE-2007-6428. EVI Extension Integer Overflow Vulnerability...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 10 package xorg-server version 2:1.4.0.90-alt6

Jan. 18, 2008 Valery Inozemtsev 2:1.4.0.90-alt6 - CVE-2007-6429: Don't spuriously reject &LT8bpp shm pixmaps...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : libxfont, xorg-server vulnerabilities (USN-571-1)

Multiple overflows were discovered in the XFree86-Misc, XInput-Misc, TOG-CUP, EVI, and MIT-SHM extensions which did not correctly validate function arguments. An authenticated attacker could send specially crafted requests and gain root privileges. CVE-2007-5760, CVE-2007-6427, CVE-2007-6428,...

xfree86: memory corruption via XInput extension

The XInput extension in X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via requests related to byte swapping and heap corruption within multiple functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4990...

Xorg / XFree86 file existence disclosure vulnerability

X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via a filename argument in the -sp option to the X program, which produces different error messages depending on whether the filename exists...

Xorg / XFree86 PCF font parser buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in 1 X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1, and 2 the libfont and libXfont libraries on some platforms including Sun Solaris, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PCF font with a large difference between the last col and first col values in the PCFBDFENCODINGS...