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Red Hat 8 RHSA-2022:7583-01 Moderate: Xorg-X11-Server Update

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2022
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Cautionary security notice regarding xorg-x11-server and Xwayland patch deployments in Red Hat 8. Addresses boundary violation vulnerabilities.
An update for xorg-x11-server, xorg-x11-server-Xwayland, and xorg-x11-xtrans-devel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

X.Org is an open-source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon.
Xwayland is an X server for running X clients under Wayland.
Security Fix(es):
* xorg-x11-server: X.Org Server ProcXkbSetGeometry out-of-bounds access (CVE-2022-2319)
* xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds access in ProcXkbSetDeviceInfo request handler of the Xkb extension (CVE-2022-2320)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat bug fix out-of-bounds Xorg Xwayland

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2319 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2320 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: xorg-x11-server-1.20.11-9.el8.src.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-21.1.3-6.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-debuginfo-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-debuginfo-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xnest-debuginfo-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xorg-debuginfo-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-debuginfo-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-21.1.3-6.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-debuginfo-21.1.3-6.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-debugsource-21.1.3-6.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-common-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-debugsource-1.20.11-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.20.11-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-debuginfo-1.20.11-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.20.11-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-debuginfo-1.20.11-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.20.11-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:7583-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7583
Issue date: 2022-11-08

Topic

An update for xorg-x11-server, xorg-x11-server-Xwayland, andxorg-x11-xtrans-devel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat bug fix out-of-bounds Xorg Xwayland

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2075132 - "Xorg -listen tcp" fails to start if ipv6 is disabled on the system

2106671 - CVE-2022-2319 xorg-x11-server: X.Org Server ProcXkbSetGeometry out-of-bounds access

2106683 - CVE-2022-2320 xorg-x11-server: out-of-bounds access in ProcXkbSetDeviceInfo request handler of the Xkb extension

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