SUSE: 2017:1850-1 Important Xorg-X11-Server Stack Overflow Issue
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July 12, 2017
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available
Summary
This update for xorg-x11-server fixes the following issues: - CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. (bnc#1035283) - Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the allowed range. - CVE-2017-10972: Initialize the xEvent eventT with zeros to avoid information leakage. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch sdksp4-xorg-x11-server-13206=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-xorg-x11-server-13206=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp3-xorg-x11-server-13206=1
Topics Covered
References
#1035283
Cross- CVE-2017-10971 CVE-2017-10972
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10971.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10972.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1035283
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1850-1
Rating: important
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