Bug 959112 (CVE-2013-2004)
| Summary: | CVE-2013-2004 libX11: unbounded recursion leading to stack-overflow | ||
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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: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | jlieskov, jrusnack, kem, peter.hutterer, security-response-team |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened, Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | libX11 1.5.99.902 (1.6 RC2) | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
Two stack-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way libX11, the Core X11 protocol client library, processed certain user-specified files. A malicious X11 server could possibly use this flaw to crash an X11 client via a specially crafted file.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2014-10-16 06:17:19 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: | 966680, 1078019 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 959130, 1101912 | ||
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Description
Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
2013-05-03 07:46:25 UTC
Upstream patches: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=236b603d235dc264d1c6250dca09c745458a9088 [1/2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=226622349a4b1e16064649d4444a34fb4be4f464 [2/2] This issue affects the versions of the libX11 package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17 and 18. Please schedule an update. Created libX11 tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 966680] External References: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23 All packages in stable, closing. This issue affects the version of libX11 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. Statement: This issue affects the libX11 package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low 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/ 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 |