Security Information / 2013 / Security Information -- DSA-2784-1 xorg-server

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2784-1 xorg-server -- use-after-free

Date Reported:

22 Oct 2013

Affected Packages:

xorg-server

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4396.

More information:

Pedro Ribeiro discovered a use-after-free in the handling of ImageText requests in the Xorg Xserver, which could result in denial of service or privilege escalation.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.7-17.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.12.4-6+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.3-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.3-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your xorg-server packages.