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Red Hat: CVE-2018-14599: Moderate: Xorg security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:2079)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-14599: Moderate: Xorg security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:2079)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/24/2018
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
08/08/2019

Description

An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c is vulnerable to an off-by-one error caused by malicious server responses, leading to DoS or possibly unspecified other impact.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-gdm
  • redhat-upgrade-gdm-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-gdm-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-gdm-pam-extensions-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libx11
  • redhat-upgrade-libx11-common
  • redhat-upgrade-libx11-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libx11-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libxkbcommon
  • redhat-upgrade-libxkbcommon-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libxkbcommon-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libxkbcommon-x11
  • redhat-upgrade-libxkbcommon-x11-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-mesa-libglw
  • redhat-upgrade-mesa-libglw-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-mesa-libglw-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-drv-ati
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-drv-ati-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-drv-vesa
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-drv-vesa-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-drv-wacom
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-drv-wacom-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-drv-wacom-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-common
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-source
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-xdmx
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-xephyr
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-xnest
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-xorg
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-xvfb
  • redhat-upgrade-xorg-x11-server-xwayland

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