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Debian: DSA-1595-1 Critical: Local Server Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2008
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Update addressing multiple local security vulnerabilities in xorg-server as identified in the Debian advisory of June 2008.
Lack of validation of the parameters of the SProcSecurityGenerateAuthorization SProcRecordCreateContext functions makes it possible for a specially crafted request to t...

Summary


Lack of validation of the parameters of the
SProcSecurityGenerateAuthorization SProcRecordCreateContext
functions makes it possible for a specially crafted request to trigger
the swapping of bytes outside the parameter of these requests, causing
memory corruption.

CVE-2008-1379

An integer overflow in the validation of the parameters of the
ShmPutImage() request makes it possible to trigger the copy of
arbitrary server memory to a pixmap that can subsequently be read by
the client, to read arbitrary parts of the X server memory space.

CVE-2008-2360

An integer overflow may occur in the computation of the size of the
glyph to be allocated by the AllocateGlyph() function which will cause
less memory to be allocated than expected, leading to later heap
overflow.

CVE-2008-2361

An integer overflow may occur in the computation of the size of the
glyph to be allocated by the ProcRenderCreateCursor() function which
will c...

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