DSA-2693-1 libx11 -- several vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-1981   CVE-2013-1997   CVE-2013-2004  

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. For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.3.3-4+squeeze1. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your libx11 packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2693-1 libx11 -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
24 May 2013
Affected Packages:
libx11
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-1981, CVE-2013-1997, CVE-2013-2004.
More information:

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.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.3.3-4+squeeze1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libx11 packages.