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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2676-1 (libxfixes - several vulnerabilities)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

10 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in multiple components of the X.org graphics stack and the related libraries: Various integer overflows, sign handling errors in integer conversions, buffer overflows, memory corruption and missing input sanitising may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service.

Affected Software

Affected Software

libxfixes on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:4.0.5-1+squeeze1. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:5.0-4+deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:5.0-4+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your libxfixes packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)