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openSUSE Security Update: Security update for xorg-x11-server
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1885-1
Rating: important
References: #1025084 #1035283
Cross-References: CVE-2017-10971 CVE-2017-10972
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.2
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An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
Description:
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.
– Improve retrieval of entropy for generating random authentication
cookies (boo#1025084)
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
– openSUSE Leap 42.2:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-825=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use “zypper patch”.
Package List:
– openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):
xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.18.3-12.
xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-7.6_
xorg-x11-server-debugsource-7.
xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.
xorg-x11-server-extra-
xorg-x11-server-sdk-7.6_1.18.
xorg-x11-server-source-7.6_1.
References:
https://www.suse.com/security/
https://www.suse.com/security/
https://bugzilla.suse.com/
https://bugzilla.suse.com/
