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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: RHSA-2023-2248-01 Moderate Xorg Security Patch

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
This advisory highlights medium-risk vulnerabilities in xorg-x11-server for RHEL, recommending urgent updates to maintain security and system integrity
An update for xorg-x11-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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.
Security Fix(es):
* xorg-x11-server: buffer overflow in _GetCountedString() in xkb/xkb.c (CVE-2022-3550)
* xorg-x11-server: XkbGetKbdByName use-after-free (CVE-2022-4283)
* xorg-x11-server: XTestSwapFakeInput stack overflow (CVE-2022-46340)
* xorg-x11-server: XIPassiveUngrab out-of-bounds access (CVE-2022-46341)
* xorg-x11-server: XvdiSelectVideoNotify use-after-free (CVE-2022-46342)
* xorg-x11-server: ScreenSaverSetAttributes use-after-free (CVE-2022-46343)
* xorg-x11-server: XIChangeProperty out-of-bounds access (CVE-2022-46344)
* xorg-x11-server: DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege elevation (CVE-2023-0494)
* xorg-x11-server: memory leak in ProcXkbGetKbdByName() in xkb/xkb.c (CVE-2022-3551)
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 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update red hat enterprise linux xorg-x11-server

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3550 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3551 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4283 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46340 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46341 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46342 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46343 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46344 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0494 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: xorg-x11-server-1.20.11-17.el9.src.rpm
aarch64: xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-debuginfo-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-debuginfo-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xnest-debuginfo-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xorg-debuginfo-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-debuginfo-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-common-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm xorg-x11-server-debugsource-1.20.11-17.el9.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.20.11-17.el9.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-debuginfo-1.20.11-17.el9.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.20.11-17.el9.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-debuginfo-1.20.11-17.el9.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.20.11-17.el9.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xnest-debuginfo-1.20.11-17.el9.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.11-17.el9.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xorg-debuginfo-1.20.11-17.el9.ppc64le.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.20.11-17.el9.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2248-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2248
Issue date: 2023-05-09

Topic

An update for xorg-x11-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux9.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 moderate security issue update red hat enterprise linux xorg-x11-server

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2140698 - CVE-2022-3550 xorg-x11-server: buffer overflow in _GetCountedString() in xkb/xkb.c

2140701 - CVE-2022-3551 xorg-x11-server: memory leak in ProcXkbGetKbdByName() in xkb/xkb.c

2148292 - Drop dependency on xorg-x11-font-utils

2151755 - CVE-2022-46340 xorg-x11-server: XTestSwapFakeInput stack overflow

2151756 - CVE-2022-46341 xorg-x11-server: XIPassiveUngrab out-of-bounds access

2151757 - CVE-2022-46342 xorg-x11-server: XvdiSelectVideoNotify use-after-free

2151758 - CVE-2022-46343 xorg-x11-server: ScreenSaverSetAttributes use-after-free

2151760 - CVE-2022-46344 xorg-x11-server: XIChangeProperty out-of-bounds access

2151761 - CVE-2022-4283 xorg-x11-server: XkbGetKbdByName use-after-free

2165995 - CVE-2023-0494 xorg-x11-server: DeepCopyPointerClasses use-after-free leads to privilege elevation

2172116 - xvfb-run "-l" or "--listen-tcp" option does not work

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