6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
libx11 is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability exists through multiple integer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 (1.6 RC1) and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to the (1) XQueryFont, (2) _XF86BigfontQueryFont, (3) XListFontsWithInfo, (4) XGetMotionEvents, (5) XListHosts, (6) XGetModifierMapping, (7) XGetPointerMapping, (8) XGetKeyboardMapping, (9) XGetWindowProperty, (10) XGetImage, (11) LoadColornameDB, (12) XrmGetFileDatabase, (13) _XimParseStringFile, or (14) TransFileName functions.
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106781.html
www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2693
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/23/3
www.securityfocus.com/bid/60120
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1854-1
www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23
www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23/
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1992
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2063
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-7439
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119322
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971626
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1436.html