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openSUSE: 2020:1198-1 Important: libX11 Heap Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update for libX11 has been released addressing a critical memory corruption vulnerability classified as significant for openSUSE.
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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1198=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

libX11-6-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

libX11-6-debuginfo-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

libX11-debugsource-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

libX11-devel-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

libX11-xcb1-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

libX11-xcb1-debuginfo-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

libX11-6-32bit-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

libX11-6-32bit-debuginfo-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

libX11-devel-32bit-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

libX11-xcb1-32bit-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

libX11-xcb1-32bit-debuginfo-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

libX11-data-1.6.5-lp151.4.6.1

References

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174628

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1198-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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