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openSUSE Leap 15.2 openSUSE-SU-2020:1182-1 Important: libX11 Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Discussing critical libX11 upgrade for openSUSE to fix memory corruption vulnerability and enhance overall system safety.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for libX11 fixes the following issues:

- Fixed XIM client heap overflows (CVE-2020-14344, bsc#1174628).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1182=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

libX11-6-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

libX11-6-debuginfo-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

libX11-debugsource-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

libX11-devel-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

libX11-xcb1-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

libX11-xcb1-debuginfo-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libX11-6-32bit-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

libX11-6-32bit-debuginfo-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

libX11-devel-32bit-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

libX11-xcb1-32bit-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

libX11-xcb1-32bit-debuginfo-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

libX11-data-1.6.5-lp152.5.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14344.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174628

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1182-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2

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