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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-7a94186139 Critical: Xwayland Out-of-Bounds Fix

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Calendar Grey October 29, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update for xorg-x11-server-Xwayland in Fedora 38 tackles CVE-2023-5367, enhancing overall system protection.
Security fix for CVE-2023-5367

Summary

Xwayland is an X server for running X clients under Wayland.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2023-5367

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora security fix out-of-bounds xwayland

Change Log

* Wed Oct 25 2023 Peter Hutterer - 22.1.9-3 - Fix for CVE-2023-5367

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2243091 - CVE-2023-5367 xorg-x11-server: Out-of-bounds write in XIChangeDeviceProperty/RRChangeOutputProperty https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243091

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-7a94186139' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 22.1.9
Release: 3.fc38
URL: https://www.x.org/wiki/
Summary: Xwayland

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora security fix out-of-bounds xwayland

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