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Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-1982

Multiple integer overflows in X.org libXext 1.3.1 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to the (1) XcupGetReservedColormapEntries, (2) XcupStoreColors, (3) XdbeGetVisualInfo, (4) XeviGetVisualInfo, (5) XShapeGetRectangles, and (6) XSyncListSystemCounters functions.

Source

ALAS-2014-403

Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-403
Advisory Release Date: 2014-09-17 21:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 12:02 Pacific

Severity: Medium

References: CVE-2013-1982

Issue Overview:

Multiple integer overflows in X.org libXext 1.3.1 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to the (1) XcupGetReservedColormapEntries, (2) XcupStoreColors, (3) XdbeGetVisualInfo, (4) XeviGetVisualInfo, (5) XShapeGetRectangles, and (6) XSyncListSystemCounters functions.

Affected Packages:

libXext

Issue Correction:
Run yum update libXext to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:
    libXext-debuginfo-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.i686
    libXext-devel-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.i686
    libXext-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.i686

src:
    libXext-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    libXext-debuginfo-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.x86_64
    libXext-devel-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.x86_64
    libXext-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.x86_64

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