Security update for xorg-x11-server
SUSE Security Update: Security update for xorg-x11-server
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2017:1861-1 |
| Rating: | important |
| References: | #1035283 |
| Affected Products: |
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.
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2017-1150=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-1150=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12 (x86_64):
- xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
- xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
- xorg-x11-server-debugsource-7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
- xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
- xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
- xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
- xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
- xorg-x11-server-debugsource-7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
- xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1
- xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-30.22.1