Bug 960357 (CVE-2013-1995)
Summary: | CVE-2013-1995 libXi: Sign extension issues resulting in heap-based buffer 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: | 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: | libXi 1.7.2 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
Doc Text: |
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the XListInputDevices() function of X.Org X11's libXi runtime library handled signed numbers. 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 06:18:24 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: | 966698, 1078025 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 959130, 1101912 |
Description
Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
2013-05-07 05:51:35 UTC
Upstream patch: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXi/commit/?id=81b4df8ac6aa1520c41c3526961014a6f115cc46 These issues affect the versions of the libXi package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17 and 18. Please schedule an update. Created libXi tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 966698] External References: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23 libXi-1.7.1-4.20130524git661c45ca1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. libXi-1.6.2.901-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. This issue affects the version of libXi as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. Statement: This issue affects the libXi 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/ IssueDescription: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the XListInputDevices() function of X.Org X11's libXi runtime library handled signed numbers. 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 |