Critical Security Update for Scientific Linux: xorg-x11 CVE-2008-1377

Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:27:24 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
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From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for xorg-x11 on SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: xorg-x11 security update
Issue date:	2008-06-11
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1377 CVE-2008-1379 CVE-2008-2360
 CVE-2008-2361

An input validation flaw was discovered in X.org's Security and Record
extensions. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause
a denial of service (crash) or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with
root privileges on the X.Org server. (CVE-2008-1377)

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in X.org's Render extension. A
malicious authorized client could exploit these issues to cause a denial of
service (crash) or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with root
privileges on the X.Org server. (CVE-2008-2360, CVE-2008-2361)

An input validation flaw was discovered in X.org's MIT-SHM extension. A
client connected to the X.org server could read arbitrary server memory.
This could result in the sensitive data of other users of the X.org server
being disclosed. (CVE-2008-1379)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.src.rpm
 i386:
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-doc-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-twm-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-doc-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-twm-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson