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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2704-1 (mesa - out of bounds access)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
It was discovered that applications using the mesa library, a free implementation of the OpenGL API, may crash or execute arbitrary code due to an out of bounds memory access in the library. This vulnerability only affects systems with Intel chipsets. The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.
Affected Software
Affected Software
mesa on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.5-4+deb7u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.5-7. We recommend that you upgrade your mesa packages.