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SuSE: XFree86,Xorg (SUSE-SA:2007:027) Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
SuSE Several X security problems were fixed that could be used by local attackers to crash the X server or potentially to execute code as root user.
______________________________________________________________________________

                        SUSE Security Announcement

        Package:                XFree86, Xorg
        Announcement ID:        SUSE-SA:2007:027
        Date:                   Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:00:00 +0000
        Affected Products:      SUSE LINUX 9.3
                                SUSE LINUX 10.0
                                SUSE LINUX 10.1
                                openSUSE 10.2
                                UnitedLinux 1.0
                                SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
                                SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4
                                SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
                                SuSE Linux Standard Server 8
                                SuSE Linux School Server
                                SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8
                                SUSE SLES 9
                                Novell Linux Desktop 9
                                Open Enterprise Server
                                Novell Linux POS 9
                                SUSE SLED 10
                                SLE SDK 10
                                SUSE SLES 10
        Vulnerability Type:     local privilege escalation
        Severity (1-10):        7
        SUSE Default Package:   yes
        Cross-References:       CVE-2007-1003, CVE-2007-1351, CVE-2007-1352
                                CVE-2007-1667

    Content of This Advisory:
        1) Security Vulnerability Resolved:
             Several X security problems
           Problem Description
        2) Solution or Work-Around
        3) Special Instructions and Notes
        4) Package Location and Checksums
        5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds:
            See SUSE Security Summary Report
        6) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information

______________________________________________________________________________

1) Problem Description and Brief Discussion

   Several X security problems were fixed that could be used by local
   attackers to crash the X server or potentially to execute code as
   root user.

   - CVE-2007-1003: Integer overflows in the XC-MISC extension of the
     X-server could potentially be exploited to execute code with root
     privileges.

   - CVE-2007-1667: Integer overflows in libX11 could cause crashes.

   - CVE-2007-1352, CVE-2007-1351: Integer overflows in the font handling
     of the X-server could potentially be exploited to execute code with
     root privileges.

2) Solution or Work-Around

   There is no known workaround, please install the update packages.

3) Special Instructions and Notes

   Please close and restart all running instances of X after the update.

4) Package Location and Checksums

   The preferred method for installing security updates is to use the YaST
   Online Update (YOU) tool. YOU detects which updates are required and
   automatically performs the necessary steps to verify and install them.
   Alternatively, download the update packages for your distribution manually
   and verify their integrity by the methods listed in Section 6 of this
   announcement. Then install the packages using the command

     rpm -Fhv 

   to apply the update, replacing  with the filename of the
   downloaded RPM package.


   x86 Platform:

   openSUSE 10.2:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xvnc-7.1-33.3.i586.rpm
          f653bfd1f2d272f42bfed24c6eeb1971
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-libX11-7.2-15.i586.rpm
          dbc88177adc2c4e061cc698ac16942b7
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-libs-7.2-21.i586.rpm
          90189f0fabe1a25f97ee3717fe73a268
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-server-7.2-30.6.i586.rpm
          3ab84eb3fc151fce81b71b0834e0982e

   SUSE LINUX 10.1:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xnest-6.9.0-50.32.5.i586.rpm
          d81eceaf06b90d1f48c4e2138a94cb48
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xprt-6.9.0-50.32.5.i586.rpm
          0aaf70eee9f9429e7472e340a368ac74
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.9.0-50.32.5.i586.rpm
          c00a864032826956a1e0c99bf1ed6fc7
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.9.0-50.32.5.i586.rpm
          6cd779e78b4cd4d9a7e6ffe0b3394bcd
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-libs-6.9.0-50.32.5.i586.rpm
          3979722de546dbc5accb94860db7e367
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-50.32.5.i586.rpm
          6ea5413c97893e21c273b53278dfd166

   SUSE LINUX 10.0:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-100.12.i586.rpm
          24e662286dad295b861990479564bbc6
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xprt-6.8.2-100.12.i586.rpm
          d2eebfa2b0ecc7648ed55ed81e6e6ca0
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-100.12.i586.rpm
          1883fead459c79ad1b8f4a1742431029
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.8.2-100.12.i586.rpm
          2a1feeeb929b9407c94ccea5b4798bdc
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-100.12.i586.rpm
          647f7deea79edc9cb1bd75e42b9c36fa
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-server-6.8.2-100.12.i586.rpm
          7371693bab6474b4eba84450c47e9856

   SUSE LINUX 9.3:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-30.12.i586.rpm
          9a1f51d708a343686924457782eb40ff
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xprt-6.8.2-30.12.i586.rpm
          1544af7ebe5cde6e03f78219e15fe329
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-30.12.i586.rpm
          09689cf5bd8c8a1ffea4324f6b1c797a
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.8.2-30.12.i586.rpm
          c7ec29ab8f7902a825cb060caa930dc5
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-30.12.i586.rpm
          455b252e226a2977bcc0c95eddb05f89
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-server-6.8.2-30.12.i586.rpm
          dfaf184254c76d904ca463459c696070

   Power PC Platform:

   openSUSE 10.2:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-Xvnc-7.1-33.3.ppc.rpm
          2dd0ac059f850919219f05f7a26dbbf1
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-libX11-7.2-15.ppc.rpm
          125f5130a49ec611c457221fb7565176
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-libs-7.2-21.ppc.rpm
          14e0e29390a097d158ce5fe2cfbe5afd
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-server-7.2-30.6.ppc.rpm
          213df9034f5bbaef13bc5d0c901ba3ec

   SUSE LINUX 10.1:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-Xnest-6.9.0-50.32.5.ppc.rpm
          415790c7a0a4aa40e6408f1c27821dc4
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-Xprt-6.9.0-50.32.5.ppc.rpm
          7fabe65e827fb30a429b56a138351bbf
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.9.0-50.32.5.ppc.rpm
          41eae3160142eb46385dbe5baf89c408
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.9.0-50.32.5.ppc.rpm
          c8116ab4d95c2fdff2ec4da37e601799
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-libs-6.9.0-50.32.5.ppc.rpm
          b4461725823fa145077cc0413d1da591
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-50.32.5.ppc.rpm
          31035241df2327b3e5a51c6c160f2274

   SUSE LINUX 10.0:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-100.12.ppc.rpm
          569448ec158732114dea533ca251d8d0
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-Xprt-6.8.2-100.12.ppc.rpm
          00c7188efcf7910ba9e4eb3f5a530b83
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-100.12.ppc.rpm
          b8dc14d51b4f1f5826fd2b9c38c9b95a
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.8.2-100.12.ppc.rpm
          51773cd8ec74d6dcf940421198185caa
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-100.12.ppc.rpm
          f4aec18ae21bdd197bcd9ca747fff6af
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/ppc/xorg-x11-server-6.8.2-100.12.ppc.rpm
          01d581f8a368bb1851bc9dce18e17e74

   x86-64 Platform:

   openSUSE 10.2:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xvnc-7.1-33.3.x86_64.rpm
          d5279a52559dad95051d35152299bca0
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-libX11-32bit-7.2-15.x86_64.rpm
          1a8a0d3686577c2659489f9db15fc33a
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-libX11-7.2-15.x86_64.rpm
          f67e112ae3a9a86738fb24c18a37f923
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-libs-32bit-7.2-21.x86_64.rpm
          56a914585e7c13a4dbbff4442e1d1b68
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-libs-7.2-21.x86_64.rpm
          deb38a3c779aa555eaf2945d481fbb71
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-server-7.2-30.6.x86_64.rpm
          92cf365d5c7a8fe64f597f6c905029cb

   SUSE LINUX 10.1:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xnest-6.9.0-50.32.5.x86_64.rpm
          de5abacece46c45c2638560186856d20
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xprt-6.9.0-50.32.5.x86_64.rpm
          5467552ff02f20f0cd853b117b78d973
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.9.0-50.32.5.x86_64.rpm
          618d2dcaaa6ddc4b42af897cc5fda760
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.9.0-50.32.5.x86_64.rpm
          3ac80b6b207d816ebce3a5ed28f3680c
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-libs-32bit-6.9.0-50.32.5.x86_64.rpm
          e30fba61063b8db8356372a95eb2d75b
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-libs-6.9.0-50.32.5.x86_64.rpm
          bb58d46daab8f11f7ab956c696b19f40
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-50.32.5.x86_64.rpm
          4ad6d5a0e3b1da87b4875870294a668e

   SUSE LINUX 10.0:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-100.12.x86_64.rpm
          152bf582064aedb118ba39608694af90
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xprt-6.8.2-100.12.x86_64.rpm
          64f5d9e1e1a8fa1c6bdea1f7f2c567b8
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-100.12.x86_64.rpm
          a6ae6668b4a4cbf4aa43148494f5ecea
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.8.2-100.12.x86_64.rpm
          b2b4869419f0e9a454b866d14105094b
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-libs-32bit-6.8.2-100.12.x86_64.rpm
          e5c1529ea2ebaaf60b05217264da6bea
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-100.12.x86_64.rpm
          ad624932ecc4dbf72027de821c7f3924
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-server-6.8.2-100.12.x86_64.rpm
          bbe45bab4874a15923e17bb9e33381ee

   SUSE LINUX 9.3:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-30.12.x86_64.rpm
          fb82e0eaff5175dff0b2aef08db85b7b
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xprt-6.8.2-30.12.x86_64.rpm
          54adc63d83c7c35b0f93eab346cc5022
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-30.12.x86_64.rpm
          c451aba3b6f8bb0fd3a9fb3c47e7f9dd
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.8.2-30.12.x86_64.rpm
          215572fb3d47192393536977bddcf11f
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-libs-32bit-9.3-7.3.x86_64.rpm
          06c442986173694140ca4f8fa07c971c
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-30.12.x86_64.rpm
          96617ce6e2bce28d30bc3e1609f2cd1d
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/x86_64/xorg-x11-server-6.8.2-30.12.x86_64.rpm
          4bbae390f12493c1d49a463f99849b68

   Sources:

   openSUSE 10.2:
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/src/xorg-x11-Xvnc-7.1-33.3.src.rpm
          ce37a23d3e6647f0af0b3e11e5b45c70
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/src/xorg-x11-libX11-7.2-15.src.rpm
          09035566ccd0ccd3245e00b8a9b20762
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/src/xorg-x11-libs-7.2-21.src.rpm
          632b8e481383561cea9688228dd3e2b4
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/src/xorg-x11-server-7.2-30.6.src.rpm
          8333f36d72e191828c30c445ac3a081d

   Our maintenance customers are notified individually. The packages are
   offered for installation from the maintenance web:

   UnitedLinux 1.0
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d01bb675582b3827d7dea897df29019c.html

   SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d01bb675582b3827d7dea897df29019c.html

   SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d01bb675582b3827d7dea897df29019c.html

   SuSE Linux Standard Server 8
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d01bb675582b3827d7dea897df29019c.html

   SuSE Linux School Server
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d01bb675582b3827d7dea897df29019c.html

   SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d01bb675582b3827d7dea897df29019c.html

   Open Enterprise Server
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d02caf41ef1474e8a88dc11ae5b1e0ef.html

   Novell Linux POS 9
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d02caf41ef1474e8a88dc11ae5b1e0ef.html

   Novell Linux Desktop 9
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d02caf41ef1474e8a88dc11ae5b1e0ef.html

   SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d02caf41ef1474e8a88dc11ae5b1e0ef.html

   SUSE SLES 9
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d02caf41ef1474e8a88dc11ae5b1e0ef.html

   SUSE SLES 10
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/8476a77bfebd56f3cd855c67d62ee674.html

   SLE SDK 10
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/8476a77bfebd56f3cd855c67d62ee674.html

   SUSE SLED 10
     http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/8476a77bfebd56f3cd855c67d62ee674.html

______________________________________________________________________________

5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds:

   See SUSE Security Summary Report
______________________________________________________________________________

6) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information

  - Announcement authenticity verification:

    SUSE security announcements are published via mailing lists and on Web
    sites. The authenticity and integrity of a SUSE security announcement is
    guaranteed by a cryptographic signature in each announcement. All SUSE
    security announcements are published with a valid signature.

    To verify the signature of the announcement, save it as text into a file
    and run the command

      gpg --verify 

    replacing  with the name of the file where you saved the
    announcement. The output for a valid signature looks like:

      gpg: Signature made  using RSA key ID 3D25D3D9
      gpg: Good signature from "SuSE Security Team "

    where  is replaced by the date the document was signed.

    If the security team's key is not contained in your key ring, you can
    import it from the first installation CD. To import the key, use the
    command

      gpg --import gpg-pubkey-3d25d3d9-36e12d04.asc

  - Package authenticity verification:

    SUSE update packages are available on many mirror FTP servers all over the
    world. While this service is considered valuable and important to the free
    and open source software community, the authenticity and the integrity of
    a package needs to be verified to ensure that it has not been tampered
    with.

    There are two verification methods that can be used independently from
    each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded file or RPM package:

    1) Using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package
    2) MD5 checksums as provided in this announcement

    1) The internal rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the
       authenticity of an RPM package. Use the command

        rpm -v --checksig 

       to verify the signature of the package, replacing  with the
       filename of the RPM package downloaded. The package is unmodified if it
       contains a valid signature from build@suse.de with the key ID 9C800ACA.

       This key is automatically imported into the RPM database (on
       RPMv4-based distributions) and the gpg key ring of 'root' during
       installation. You can also find it on the first installation CD and at
       the end of this announcement.

    2) If you need an alternative means of verification, use the md5sum
       command to verify the authenticity of the packages. Execute the command

         md5sum 

       after you downloaded the file from a SUSE FTP server or its mirrors.
       Then compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the
       SUSE security announcement. Because the announcement containing the
       checksums is cryptographically signed (by security@suse.de), the
       checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package if the
       signature of the announcement is valid. Note that the md5 sums
       published in the SUSE Security Announcements are valid for the
       respective packages only. Newer versions of these packages cannot be
       verified.

  - SUSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may
    subscribe:

    opensuse-security@opensuse.org
        -   General Linux and SUSE security discussion.
            All SUSE security announcements are sent to this list.
            To subscribe, send an e-mail to
                .

    suse-security-announce@suse.com
        -   SUSE's announce-only mailing list.
            Only SUSE's security announcements are sent to this list.
            To subscribe, send an e-mail to
                .

    =====================================================================
    SUSE's security contact is  or .
    The  public key is listed below.
    =====================================================================
______________________________________________________________________________

    The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced,
    provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. In particular, the
    clear text signature should show proof of the authenticity of the text.

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