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Ubuntu 13.04 USN-1865-1 Moderate: libxt Denial of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey June 5, 2013
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Resolutions for several vulnerabilities in libxt impacting numerous Ubuntu builds were issued on June 05, 2013.
Several security issues were fixed in libxt.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in libxt.

Software Description:

- libxt: X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Details:

Ilja van Sprundel discovered multiple security issues in various X.org

libraries and components. An attacker could use these issues to cause

applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly

execute arbitrary code.

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04:
  libxt6                          1:1.1.3-1ubuntu0.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  libxt6                          1:1.1.3-1ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libxt6                          1:1.1.1-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libxt6                          1:1.0.7-1ubuntu0.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1865-1

CVE-2013-2002, CVE-2013-2005

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June 05, 2013

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