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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2020-2147-1 Important: xorg-x11-server Issues

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Calendar Grey December 2, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Key enhancements for xorg-x11-server in openSUSE: tackles significant flaws and improves overall system safety.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

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

- CVE-2020-25712: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow which could have led

to privilege escalation (bsc#1177596).

- CVE-2020-14360: Fixed an out of bounds memory accesses on too short

request which could lead to denial of service (bsc#1174908).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

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security advisory denial of service buffer overflow important update xorg-x11-server openSUSE

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-2020-2147=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

xorg-x11-server-1.20.3-lp152.8.12.1

xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-1.20.3-lp152.8.12.1

xorg-x11-server-debugsource-1.20.3-lp152.8.12.1

xorg-x11-server-extra-1.20.3-lp152.8.12.1

xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo-1.20.3-lp152.8.12.1

xorg-x11-server-sdk-1.20.3-lp152.8.12.1

xorg-x11-server-source-1.20.3-lp152.8.12.1

xorg-x11-server-wayland-1.20.3-lp152.8.12.1

xorg-x11-server-wayland-debuginfo-1.20.3-lp152.8.12.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14360.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25712.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174908

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177596

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2147-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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