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openSUSE 13.2: 2015:0614-1 Important: libXfont Multiple Issues

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2015
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A significant security patch for Fedora that addresses multiple severe flaws in libXYZ, boosting overall system protection.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

libXFont was updated to fix three vulnerabilities when parsing BDF files

(bnc#921978)

As libXfont is used by the X server to read font files, and an

unprivileged user with access to the X server can tell the X server to

read a given font file from a path of their choosing, these

vulnerabilities have the potential to allow unprivileged users to run code

with the privileges of the X server.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

* The BDF parser could allocate the a wrong buffer size, leading to out of

bound writes (CVE-2015-1802)

* The BDF parser could crash when trying to read an invalid pointer

(CVE-2015-1803)

* The BDF parser could read 32 bit metrics values into 16 bit integers,

causing an out-of-bound memory access though integer overflow

(CVE-2015-1804)

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-266=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-266=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

libXfont-debugsource-1.5.0-2.4.1

libXfont-devel-1.5.0-2.4.1

libXfont1-1.5.0-2.4.1

libXfont1-debuginfo-1.5.0-2.4.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64):

libXfont-devel-32bit-1.5.0-2.4.1

libXfont1-32bit-1.5.0-2.4.1

libXfont1-debuginfo-32bit-1.5.0-2.4.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

libXfont-debugsource-1.4.6-2.12.1

libXfont-devel-1.4.6-2.12.1

libXfont1-1.4.6-2.12.1

libXfont1-debuginfo-1.4.6-2.12.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

libXfont-devel-32bit-1.4.6-2.12.1

libXfont1-32bit-1.4.6-2.12.1

libXfont1-debuginfo-32bit-1.4.6-2.12.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1802.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1803.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1804.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921978

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0614-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 .

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