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openSUSE: 2020:1302-1 Important: xorg-x11-server Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important patch for openSUSE xorg-x11-server addresses several vulnerabilities related to privilege escalation and enhances overall security.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for xorg-x11-server fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-14347: Leak of uninitialized heap memory from the X server to

clients on pixmap allocation (bsc#1174633, ZDI-CAN-11426).

- CVE-2020-14346: XIChangeHierarchy Integer Underflow Privilege Escalation

Vulnerability (bsc#1174638, ZDI-CAN-11429).

- CVE-2020-14345: XKB out-of-bounds access privilege escalation

vulnerability (bsc#1174635, ZDI-CAN-11428).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2: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-2020-1302=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

xorg-x11-server-1.20.3-lp152.8.3.1

xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-1.20.3-lp152.8.3.1

xorg-x11-server-debugsource-1.20.3-lp152.8.3.1

xorg-x11-server-extra-1.20.3-lp152.8.3.1

xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo-1.20.3-lp152.8.3.1

xorg-x11-server-sdk-1.20.3-lp152.8.3.1

xorg-x11-server-source-1.20.3-lp152.8.3.1

xorg-x11-server-wayland-1.20.3-lp152.8.3.1

xorg-x11-server-wayland-debuginfo-1.20.3-lp152.8.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14345.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14346.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14347.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174633

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174635

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174638

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1302-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2

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