Bug 1381868 (CVE-2016-7945)

Summary:	CVE-2016-7945 libXi: Insufficient validation of server responses result in Integer overflows
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	btissoir, kbost, peter.hutterer, slawomir
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	libXi 1.7.7	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1381870
Bug Blocks:	1381939

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-05 08:50:18 UTC

It was found that when receiving a response from the server protocol data is not validated sufficiently. This results in integer overflows.

Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXi/commit/?id=19a9cd607de73947fcfb104682f203ffe4e1f4e5

External References:

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/17

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-05 08:52:34 UTC

Created libXi tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1381870]