SuSE: 2017:1859-1: important: xorg-x11-server
Summary
This update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fixes: - 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 OpenStack Cloud 6: zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-6-2017-1149=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2017-1149=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2017-1149=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 (x86_64): xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-debugsource-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 (ppc64le x86_64): xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-debugsource-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS (ppc64le s390x x86_64): xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-debugsource-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1 xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1
References
#1035283
Cross- CVE-2017-10971 CVE-2017-10972
Affected Products:
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS
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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