Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2013:259 First vendor Publication 2013-10-28
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2013-10-28
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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

Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerability:

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 (CVE-2013-4396).

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:259

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 : fedora_2015-3964.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-27 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-3948.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-3953.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_xorg_20141014.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-807.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-05-16 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201405-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-05 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IV52978.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-05 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IV53246.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-22 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IV52181.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-22 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IV53331.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-22 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IV52186.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-22 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IV52185.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-22 Name : The remote AIX host is missing a security patch.
File : aix_IV52184.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-19 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_xorg-x11-Xvnc-131022.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-14 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2013-234.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-29 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-259.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-25 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_9a57c6073cab11e3b4d9bcaec565249c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-23 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2784.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-18 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1990-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-17 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-1426.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-17 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20131015_xorg_x11_server_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-16 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1426.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
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 11:44:06
  • Multiple Updates
2013-10-28 21:19:53
  • First insertion