SUSE Security Update: Security update for xorg-x11-libs
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-SU-2015:0674-1
Rating:             important
References:         #921978 
Cross-References:   CVE-2015-1802 CVE-2015-1803 CVE-2015-1804
                   
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3
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   An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:


   LibXFont was updated to fix security problems that could be used by local
   attackers to gain X server privileges (root).

   The following security issues have been fixed:

       *

         CVE-2015-1802: The bdf parser reads a count for the number of
   properties defined in a font from the font file, and allocates arrays with
   entries for each property based on that count. It never checked to see if
   that count was negative, or large enough to overflow when multiplied by
   the size of the structures being allocated, and could thus allocate the
   wrong buffer size, leading to out of bounds writes.

       *

         CVE-2015-1803: If the bdf parser failed to parse the data for the
   bitmap for any character, it would proceed with an invalid pointer to the
   bitmap data and later crash when trying to read the bitmap from that
   pointer.

       *

         CVE-2015-1804: The bdf parser read metrics values as 32-bit
   integers, but stored them into 16-bit integers. Overflows could occur in
   various operations leading to out-of-bounds memory access.

   Security Issues:

       * CVE-2015-1802
         
       * CVE-2015-1803
         
       * CVE-2015-1804
         


Patch Instructions:

   To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3:

      zypper in -t patch sdksp3-xorg-x11-devel=10487

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware:

      zypper in -t patch slessp3-xorg-x11-devel=10487

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3:

      zypper in -t patch slessp3-xorg-x11-devel=10487

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3:

      zypper in -t patch sledsp3-xorg-x11-devel=10487

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

      xorg-x11-devel-7.4-8.26.44.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 (ppc64 s390x x86_64):

      xorg-x11-devel-32bit-7.4-8.26.44.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (i586 x86_64):

      xorg-x11-libs-7.4-8.26.44.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (x86_64):

      xorg-x11-libs-32bit-7.4-8.26.44.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

      xorg-x11-libs-7.4-8.26.44.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (ppc64 s390x x86_64):

      xorg-x11-libs-32bit-7.4-8.26.44.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (ia64):

      xorg-x11-libs-x86-7.4-8.26.44.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (i586 x86_64):

      xorg-x11-libs-7.4-8.26.44.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (x86_64):

      xorg-x11-libs-32bit-7.4-8.26.44.1


References:

   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1802.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1803.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1804.html
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/921978
   https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

SuSE: 2015:0674-1: important: xorg-x11-libs

April 7, 2015
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

LibXFont was updated to fix security problems that could be used by local attackers to gain X server privileges (root). The following security issues have been fixed: * CVE-2015-1802: The bdf parser reads a count for the number of properties defined in a font from the font file, and allocates arrays with entries for each property based on that count. It never checked to see if that count was negative, or large enough to overflow when multiplied by the size of the structures being allocated, and could thus allocate the wrong buffer size, leading to out of bounds writes. * CVE-2015-1803: If the bdf parser failed to parse the data for the bitmap for any character, it would proceed with an invalid pointer to the bitmap data and later crash when trying to read the bitmap from that pointer. * CVE-2015-1804: The bdf parser read metrics values as 32-bit integers, but stored them into 16-bit integer...

Read the Full Advisory

References

#921978

Cross- CVE-2015-1802 CVE-2015-1803 CVE-2015-1804

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1802.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1803.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1804.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/921978

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

Severity
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0674-1
Rating: important

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