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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2023-2eb445d52b Critical: Xwayland Out-of-Bounds Write

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 39's recent update introduces a crucial security enhancement for Xwayland, mitigating the risks posed by CVE-2023-5367 related to an out-of-bounds write flaw.
Xwayland 23.2.2 ---- Security fix for CVE-2023-5367

Summary

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

Update Information:

Xwayland 23.2.2 ---- Security fix for CVE-2023-5367

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Change Log

* Thu Oct 26 2023 Olivier Fourdan - 23.2.2-1 - xwayland 23.2.2 - (#2246029) * Wed Oct 25 2023 Peter Hutterer - 23.2.1-2 - 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-2023-2eb445d52b' 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 39
Version: 23.2.2
Release: 1.fc39
URL: https://www.x.org/wiki/
Summary: Xwayland

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