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Debian: 2011-344-04 High: Kernel Module Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey August 28, 2010
Dist Slackware Esm H88
The recent xorg-server update on Slackware tackles issues related to stack memory vulnerabilities and security weaknesses prevalent among various Linux distributions.
New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xorg-server-1.7.7-i486-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to prevent overwriting stack memory and bypassing security mechanisms on systems that use a 2.6 Linux kernel. Reported by Rafal Wojtczuk. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2240 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix moderate severity slackware xorg-server stack memory

Where Find New Packages

HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated packages for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-xdmx-1.3.0.0-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-xnest-1.3.0.0-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/xorg-server-xvfb-1.3.0.0-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz
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Slackware 12.0 packages: 948e4d6012f7c349be58318622941508 xorg-server-1.3.0.0-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz c9d5f136423384d7a68f971992f6049f xorg-server-xdmx-1.3.0.0-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz bb3da6748a08c142c47633e642c7137d xorg-server-xnest-1.3.0.0-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz dfb6bdba04491ca4acb15fafd89638b2 xorg-server-xvfb-1.3.0.0-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 packages: a8ab8b3976df8633257d65b3913b8883 xorg-server-1.4.2-i486-2_slack12.1.tgz 4fdf655f8fc4ffdd478a6c3981b0a6fd xorg-server-xnest-1.4.2-i486-2_slack12.1.tgz 93e4c5e23fa6efc9a5c222da5edac3ba xorg-server-xvfb-1.4.2-i486-2_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 packages: bcd28e761bb4adbf24dec715c49d297b xorg-server-1.4.2-i486-2_slack12.2.tgz 25723efc09e09d915ebb36e1205d70b1 xorg-server-xnest-1.4.2-i486-2_slack12.2.tgz d1c5206344d115c19f4349faa92a02a1 xorg-server-xvfb-1.4.2-i486-2_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware 13.0 packages: dc4780c806670dd2b1bbf849f1de135a xorg-server-1.6.3-i486-2_slack13.0.txz 3d7ecec9719e890d76f773f284dfe339 xorg-server-xephyr-1.6.3-i486-2_slack13.0.txz 67bd1e1772b5b56a3437b328a25b32d1 xorg-server-xnest-1.6.3-i486-2_slack13.0.txz d6f8fd0392ded6db5d8a8a38a21aa0bd xorg-server-xvfb-1.6.3-i486-2_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 packages: dcba378af605ce9215b59f1c9b695765 xorg-server-1.6.3-x86_64-2_slack13.0.txz 471d08f7e17f1b00a27801d53ca7ac0e xorg-server-xephyr-1.6.3-x86_64-2_slack13.0.txz 1ab068bc4ae868eb8474a37cae643c3f xorg-server-xnest-1.6.3-x86_64-2_slack13.0.txz ce6fff885eaeb0bacffed8de5bff696f xorg-server-xvfb-1.6.3-x86_64-2_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 packages: ea462ea066e90341443e135a34cc74e7 xorg-server-1.7.7-i486-2_slack13.1.txz dd01a6d98fed4d0135aef3ba4434d713 xorg-server-xephyr-1.7.7-i486-2_slack13.1.txz 4650b8a0248c225172367c3a49c2b8ea xorg-server-xnest-1.7.7-i486-2_slack13.1.txz b28c1a2118f9e68c44e794d85d214c4b xorg-server-xvfb-1.7.7-i486-2_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 packages: 5a94d24124740a99e4961c2511f40ae4 xorg-server-1.7.7-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz de80c9498875b726f46612f344223b98 xorg-server-xephyr-1.7.7-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz 47c55a47f8c0d3fef964984cf35d7327 xorg-server-xnest-1.7.7-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz 838b0c430f248e8f4db8ab7b2a310f90 xorg-server-xvfb-1.7.7-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz
Slackware -current packages: 5d47df75439e8be839648d62dff8a067 x/xorg-server-1.7.7-i486-2.txz 5567692e94ab8d77e78a947aa6761dce x/xorg-server-xephyr-1.7.7-i486-2.txz 0c3112b8b3de5dfa5546c4808b0fd1ab x/xorg-server-xnest-1.7.7-i486-2.txz c227768380dbfcf6e10e252b0ed63559 x/xorg-server-xvfb-1.7.7-i486-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: fd708c0e164edf215ed3c26f2ee37721 x/xorg-server-1.7.7-x86_64-2.txz eab6cd91332a734466fd1b8f295d5842 x/xorg-server-xephyr-1.7.7-x86_64-2.txz eac24a47e7906236c6cb4971a24f61d9 x/xorg-server-xnest-1.7.7-x86_64-2.txz c9c3d50532fd43cabee7bfbea1cce0e1 x/xorg-server-xvfb-1.7.7-x86_64-2.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix moderate severity slackware xorg-server stack memory

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Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg xorg-server-*z

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