Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 905
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 905

Debian 3.1 DSA 1249-1: Critical Xfree86 Privilege Escalation

debian
Calendar Grey January 15, 2007
Debian Logo
The Debian Security Notice DSA 1250-2 deals with vulnerabilities in the apache2 packages that have been patched to prevent remote exploitation.
Updated package.

Summary


Sean Larsson discovered an integer overflow in the Render extension,
which might lead to denial of service or local privilege escalation.

CVE-2006-6102

Sean Larsson discovered an integer overflow in the DBE extension,
which might lead to denial of service or local privilege escalation.

CVE-2006-6103

Sean Larsson discovered an integer overflow in the DBE extension,
which might lead to denial of service or local privilege escalation.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3. This update lacks builds for the
Motorola 680x0 architecture, which had build problems. Packages will be
released once this problem has been resolved.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed
in version 1.1.1-15 of xorg-server.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed
in version 1.1.1-15 of xorg-server.

We recommend that you upgrade your XFree86 packages.

Upgrade ...

Read the Full Advisory

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here