SUSE: 2017:1859-1 Critical: xorg-x11-server Stack Overflow Disclosure
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July 14, 2017
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available
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
Topics Covered
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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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1859-1
Rating: important
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