Bug 218870

Summary: CVE-2006-6101 Multiple XFree86 integer overflows (CVE-2006-6102, CVE-2006-6103)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: XFree86Assignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 3.0CC: security-response-team
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=important,reported=20061207,source=vendorsec,embargoed=yes
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2007-0002 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-12-07 21:59:34 UTC
iDefense reported several integer overflow flaws in the XFree86 server source.
These flaws may allow a local user to leverage these flaws to become root.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-12-07 22:02:13 UTC
These flaws also affect RHEL2.1

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2006-12-07 22:06:13 UTC
Created attachment 143094 [details]
Upstream patch

Comment 5 Adam Jackson 2007-01-03 12:32:01 UTC
Built as XFree86-4.3.0-114.EL for RHEL3.

RHEL 2.1 is waiting for beehive to wake up.

Comment 6 Adam Jackson 2007-01-03 15:21:49 UTC
XFree86-4.1.0-78.EL for RHEL 2.1

Comment 7 Adam Jackson 2007-01-03 19:27:19 UTC
correction, -115 for RHEL3.

Comment 8 Josh Bressers 2007-01-09 15:43:53 UTC
These issues are public:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2007-January/000235.html

Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-01-10 14:10:22 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-2007-0002.html