Security update for xorg-x11

SUSE Security Update: Security update for xorg-x11
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0312-1
Rating: low
References: #648287 #648290
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4
  • SLE SDK 10 SP4

  • An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

    Description:


    This update of xorg-x11 fixes issues that could allow
    attackers using GLX opcodes to read access to arbitrary
    memory locations (CVE-2010-4818). Additionally, a crash
    due to missing bounds checks in the the Glyph Render
    protocol have been fixed (CVE-2010-4819).

    Access to the X server by the attacker was required to make
    this work.

    Security Issue references:

    * CVE-2010-4819
    >
    * CVE-2010-4818
    >

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):
    • xorg-x11-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-Xnest-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-devel-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-doc-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-fonts-syriac-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-libs-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-man-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc x86_64):
    • xorg-x11-sdk-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-server-glx-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (s390x x86_64):
    • xorg-x11-devel-32bit-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-libs-32bit-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (ia64):
    • xorg-x11-libs-x86-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (ppc):
    • xorg-x11-devel-64bit-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-libs-64bit-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 x86_64):
    • xorg-x11-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-Xnest-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-devel-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-fonts-syriac-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-libs-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-man-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-server-glx-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (x86_64):
    • xorg-x11-devel-32bit-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-libs-32bit-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):
    • xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • xorg-x11-doc-6.9.0-50.78.5
    • SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc x86_64):
    • xorg-x11-sdk-6.9.0-50.78.5

    References:

    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4818.html
    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4819.html
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/648287
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/648290
    • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=926559701859ebd386944eb1075ad07e