Debian: DSA-2704-1 Critical: Mesa Out Of Bounds Access Problem
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June 9, 2013
It was discovered that applications using the mesa library, a free implementation of the OpenGL API, may crash or execute arbitrary code due to an out of bounds memory access in th...
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Summary
It was discovered that applications using the mesa library, a free
implementation of the OpenGL API, may crash or execute arbitrary code
due to an out of bounds memory access in the library.
This vulnerability only affects systems with Intel chipsets.
The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.0.5-4+deb7u2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.0.5-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your mesa packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: mesa
CVE ID: CVE-2013-1872
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