Bug 959108 (CVE-2013-2005)
| Summary: | CVE-2013-2005 libXt: Memory corruption due to unchecked use of unchecked function pointers | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | jlieskov, jrusnack, kem, peter.hutterer, security-response-team |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | libXt 1.1.4 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
A flaw was found in the way the X.Org X11 libXt runtime library used uninitialized pointers. A malicious X11 server could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running an X11 client.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2014-10-16 06:17:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 966822, 1078035 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 959130, 1101912 | ||
Created libXt tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 966822] libXt-1.1.3-4.20130524git1f4802b74.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. This issue affects the version of libXt as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. Statement: This issue affects the libXt package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ libXt-1.1.3-4.20130524git1f4802b74.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. External References: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23 IssueDescription: A flaw was found in the way the X.Org X11 libXt runtime library used uninitialized pointers. A malicious X11 server could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running an X11 client. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:1436 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1436.html |
It was found that multiple functions in libXt, an X.Org X11 libXt runtime library, did not check for the failure of XGetWindowProperty() function to initiase certain valid window properties. This could lead to use of uninitialized pointers for reading, writing or even passing to functions such as free(), this could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the X client. Affected functions: ReqCleanup(), HandleSelectionEvents(), ReqTimedOut(), HandleNormal(), HandleSelectionReplies()