Bug 1014561 (CVE-2013-4396)

Summary: CVE-2013-4396 xorg-x11-server: use-after-free flaw when handling ImageText requests
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: high    
Version: unspecifiedCC: ajax, jkurik, jrusnack, peter.hutterer, pfrields, security-response-team, twaugh, vdanen
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-server 1.15.0, xorg-x11-server 1.14.4 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-11-22 06:18:06 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1015161, 1016412, 1017013, 1017521, 1017522, 1017523    
Bug Blocks: 974906, 1014570    
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Description Murray McAllister 2013-10-02 10:56:30 UTC 
X.Org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the X.Org server handled ImageText requests. A malicious, authorized client could use this flaw to crash the X.Org server or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-10-02 16:26:34 UTC 
Created attachment 806554 [details]
upstream patch
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2013-10-02 16:29:09 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the X.Org security team for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Pedro Ribeiro as the original reporter.
Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2013-10-08 22:12:34 UTC 
This is now public:

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2013-October/002332.html
Comment 8 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-10-09 07:11:41 UTC 
Created xorg-x11-server tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1017013]
Comment 9 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-10-10 05:42:12 UTC 
Statement:

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Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-15 18:41:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1426 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1426.html