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HistoryJul 15, 2017 - 3:09 p.m.

Security update for xorg-x11-server (important)

2017-07-1515:09:15
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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. (bnc#1035283)
  • Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent
    are in the allowed range.
  • CVE-2017-10972: Initialize the xEvent eventT with zeros to avoid
    information leakage.
  • Improve retrieval of entropy for generating random authentication
    cookies (boo#1025084)