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openSUSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3974-1 Critical: libX11 Memory Leak Issue Found

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2023
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest libX11 patch addresses various vulnerabilities such as buffer overflow and memory corruption that could pose security threats.
This update for libX11 fixes the following issues: CVE-2023-43786: Fixed stack exhaustion from infinite recursion in PutSubImage() (bsc#1215684).

Description

This update for libX11 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2023-43786: Fixed stack exhaustion from infinite recursion in

PutSubImage() (bsc#1215684).

* CVE-2023-43787: Fixed integer overflow in XCreateImage() leading to a heap

overflow (bsc#1215685).

* CVE-2023-43785: Fixed out-of-bounds memory access in _XkbReadKeySyms()

(bsc#1215683).

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity integer overflow memory access libX11 openSUSE stack exhaustion

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-3963=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2023-3963=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2023-3963=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2023-3963=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2023-3963=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2023-3963=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP4-2023-3963=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-3963=1

* SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.2-2023-3963=1

* SUSE Manager Retail...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libX11-xcb1-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-6-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-6-debuginfo-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-xcb1-debuginfo-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-debugsource-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-devel-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64)

* libX11-6-32bit-debuginfo-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-devel-32bit-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-6-32bit-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-xcb1-32bit-debuginfo-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-xcb1-32bit-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)

* libX11-data-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* libX11-xcb1-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-6-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-6-debuginfo-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-xcb1-debuginfo-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* libX11-debugsource-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (noarch)

* libX11-data-1.6.5-150000.3.33.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

*...

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References

* #1215683

* #1215684

* #1215685

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43785.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43786.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43787.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215683

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215684

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215685

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:3963-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity integer overflow memory access libX11 openSUSE stack exhaustion

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