libxrender vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-1987  

Several security issues were fixed in libxrender.

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

libxrender vulnerability

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 libxrender.

Software Description

  • libxrender - X Rendering Extension client 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
libxrender1 - 1:0.9.7-1ubuntu0.13.04.1
Ubuntu 12.10
libxrender1 - 1:0.9.7-1ubuntu0.12.10.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
libxrender1 - 1:0.9.6-2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
libxrender1 - 1:0.9.5-1ubuntu0.1

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