libx11 vulnerabilities

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

Several security issues were fixed in libx11.

Ilja van Sprundel discovered multiple security issues in various X.org libraries and components. An attacker could use these issues to cause applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

5 June 2013

libx11 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 13.04
  • Ubuntu 12.10
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in libx11.

Software Description

  • libx11 - X11 client-side library

Details

Ilja van Sprundel discovered multiple security issues in various X.org libraries and components. An attacker could use these issues to cause applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04
libx11-6 - 2:1.5.0-1ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 12.10
libx11-6 - 2:1.5.0-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
libx11-6 - 2:1.4.99.1-0ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
libx11-6 - 2:1.3.2-1ubuntu3.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References