Executive Summary

Summary
Title xorg-server security update
Informations
Name DSA-2784 First vendor Publication 2013-10-22
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2013-10-22
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2784

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19497
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19497
Title: DSA-2784-1 xorg-server - use-after-free
Description: Pedro Ribeiro discovered a use-after-free in the handling of ImageText requests in the Xorg X server, which could result in denial of service or privilege escalation.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2784-1
CVE-2013-4396
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
Product(s): xorg-server
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21134
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21134
Title: RHSA-2013:1426: xorg-x11-server security update (Important)
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ImageText request that triggers memory-allocation failure.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2013:1426-00
CESA-2013:1426
CVE-2013-4396
Version: 4
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
CentOS Linux 6
Product(s): xorg-x11-server
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21666
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21666
Title: Vulnerability in the X server on AIX
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ImageText request that triggers memory-allocation failure.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2013-4396
Version: 3
Platform(s): IBM AIX 6.1
IBM AIX 7.1
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23039
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23039
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2013:1426: xorg-x11-server security update (Important)
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ImageText request that triggers memory-allocation failure.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013:1426-01
CVE-2013-4396
Version: 7
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): xorg-x11-server
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24142
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24142
Title: ELSA-2013:1426: xorg-x11-server security update (Important)
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ImageText request that triggers memory-allocation failure.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013:1426-01
CVE-2013-4396
Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): xorg-x11-server
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27472
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27472
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2013-1426 -- xorg-x11-server security update (important)
Description: [1.13.0-11.1.2] - CVE-2013-4396: Fix use-after free in ImageText requests (#1014561)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013-1426
CVE-2013-4396
Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Oracle Linux 6
Product(s): xorg-x11-server
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 22

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

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File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-259.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
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2013-10-16 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1426.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-15 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2013-287-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:32:16
  • Multiple Updates
2013-10-22 21:21:17
  • First insertion