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openSUSE Leap 15.4: 2023:0289-1 important: xwayland use-after-free

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2023
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Debian has rolled out a security patch for wayland that addresses a severe memory corruption vulnerability identified as CVE-2023-0585. Users are urged to apply this update promptly.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for xwayland fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2023-0494: Fixed a use-after-free in DeepCopyPointerClasses

(bsc#1207783).

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Topics Covered

security advisory important update use-after-free SUSE Linux Enterprise patch instructions openSUSE Leap xwayland

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-289=1

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP4:

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP4-2023-289=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

xwayland-21.1.4-150400.3.9.1

xwayland-debuginfo-21.1.4-150400.3.9.1

xwayland-debugsource-21.1.4-150400.3.9.1

xwayland-devel-21.1.4-150400.3.9.1

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP4 (x86_64):

xwayland-21.1.4-150400.3.9.1

xwayland-debuginfo-21.1.4-150400.3.9.1

xwayland-debugsource-21.1.4-150400.3.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0494.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1207783

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:0289-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP4 openSUSE Leap 15.4

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security advisory important update use-after-free SUSE Linux Enterprise patch instructions openSUSE Leap xwayland

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