Bug 959070 (CVE-2013-1990) - CVE-2013-1990 libXvMC: Multiple integer overflows leading to heap-based buffer overflows
Summary: CVE-2013-1990 libXvMC: Multiple integer overflows leading to heap-based buffe...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-1990
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 966817 1078041
Blocks: 959130 1101912
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Reported: 2013-05-03 06:04 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libXvMC 1.0.8
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Last Closed: 2014-10-16 06:16:52 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1436 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: X11 client libraries security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2014-10-14 01:06:02 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-05-03 06:04:06 UTC 
Multiple integer overflows leading to heap-based buffer overflows were found in the libXvMC, an X.Org X11 libXvMC runtime library. When a X client is connected to a malicious X server, (modified to return invalid values), it can cause arbirary code execution with the privileges of the user running the X client.

Affected functions:  XvMCListSurfaceTypes(), XvMCListSubpictureTypes()
Comment 11 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-05-23 15:40:23 UTC 
Public via:
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/23/3
Comment 12 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-05-24 03:49:16 UTC 
Created libXvMC tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 966817]
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2013-05-27 03:23:26 UTC 
libXvMC-1.0.7-6.20130524gite9415ddef.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2013-06-03 03:04:44 UTC 
libXvMC-1.0.7-6.20130524gite9415ddef.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 15 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-06-05 03:34:03 UTC 
This issue affects the version of libXvMC as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Comment 16 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-06-05 03:47:15 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the libXvMC 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/
Comment 17 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-17 13:02:04 UTC 
External References:

http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23
Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2013-07-18 06:07:33 UTC 
libXvMC-1.0.8-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 05:05:18 UTC 
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
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