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openSUSE 11.3: Addressing Critical X Server Vulnerabilities in 2012

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2012
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Remedies for serious vulnerabilities in openSUSE xorg-x11-server have been released, bolstering system security.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

The X server had two security issues and one bug that is

fixed by this update.

CVE-2011-4028: It is possible for a local attacker to

deduce if a file exists or not by exploiting the way that

Xorg creates its lock files.

CVE-2011-4029: It is possible for a non-root local user to

set the read permission for all users on any file or

directory.

Special Instructions and Notes:

Please reboot the system after installing this update.This

update triggers a restart of the software management stack.

More updates will be available for installation after

applying this update and restarting the application. This

update triggers a restart of the software management stack.

More updates will be available for installation after

applying this update and restarting the application.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update system protection local access issue openSUSE X server

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 11.3:

zypper in -t patch xorg-x11-Xvnc-5490

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64):

xorg-x11-Xvnc-7.5_1.8.0-10.15.2

xorg-x11-server-7.5_1.8.0-10.15.2

xorg-x11-server-extra-7.5_1.8.0-10.15.2

xorg-x11-server-sdk-7.5_1.8.0-10.15.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4028.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4029.html

Severity
important
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Critical

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0227-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 11.3 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update system protection local access issue openSUSE X server

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