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openSUSE: SUSE-2023:4933-1 critical: xwayland buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey December 20, 2023
Dist Suse Esm H88
An important update for xwayland is now available, resolving a memory leakage concern that affects multiple iterations of SUSE Linux.
* bsc#1217765 Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5

Summary

## This update for xwayland fixes the following issues: * CVE-2023-6377: Fixed out-of-bounds memory write in XKB button actions (bsc#1217765). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-4933=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4933=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP5 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP5-2023-4933=1 ## Package List: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586) * xwayland-debugsource-22.1.5-150500.7.11.1 * xwayland-devel-22.1.5-150500.7.11.1 * xwayland-debuginfo-22.1.5-150500.7.11.1 * xwayland-22.1.5-150500.7.11.1

References

* bsc#1217765

Affected Products:

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP5

An update that has one security fix can now be installed.

##

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217765

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4933-1
Rating: important

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