Security update for xorg-x11-libXfixes
SUSE Security Update: Security update for xorg-x11-libXfixes
This is a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS roll up update of
xorg-x11-libXfixes, fixing a security issue.
This issue require connection to a malicious X server to trigger the bugs
in client libraries.
* CVE-2013-1983: Integer overflow in X.org libXfixes allowed X servers
to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow
via vectors related to the XFixesGetCursorImage function.
Security Issue reference:
* CVE-2013-1983
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2014:0900-1 |
| Rating: | moderate |
| References: | #815451 #821667 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.
Description:
This is a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS roll up update of
xorg-x11-libXfixes, fixing a security issue.
This issue require connection to a malicious X server to trigger the bugs
in client libraries.
* CVE-2013-1983: Integer overflow in X.org libXfixes allowed X servers
to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow
via vectors related to the XFixesGetCursorImage function.
Security Issue reference:
* CVE-2013-1983
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 11 SP1 LTSS:
zypper in -t patch slessp1-xorg-x11-libXfixes-9388
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):
- xorg-x11-libXfixes-7.4-1.16.8
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS (s390x x86_64):
- xorg-x11-libXfixes-32bit-7.4-1.16.8
References:
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1983.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/815451
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/821667
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=0f6bf50c097f5668e99396ee67293bd3