Bug 204548

Summary: CVE-2006-3739 X CID font parser multiple integer overflows (CVE-2006-3740)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 4.0CC: security-response-team
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: public=20060912,reported=20060829,source=vendorsec,impact=important
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0665 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-08-29 20:50:10 UTC 
iDefense reported two integer overflow vulnerabilities in X's CID font parser. 
This could allow an attacker with access to the xserver to execute arbitrary
code with the same privileges as the X server (root).
Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2006-08-29 21:04:13 UTC 
Created attachment 135172 [details]
Proposed patch from upstream
Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2006-09-01 14:28:22 UTC 
Ping on this.  Any ETA on new packages with this fix?
Comment 8 Mark J. Cox 2006-09-12 14:58:18 UTC 
Now public at 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-September/018021.html
removing embargo
Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-09-12 16:09:20 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0665.html