[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2017:1859-1: important: Security update for xorg-x11-server

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for xorg-x11-server

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1859-1

Rating: important

References: #1035283

Cross-References: CVE-2017-10971 CVE-2017-10972

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

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An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

 

Description:

 

This update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fixes:

 

- CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a

stack overflow by clients. (bnc#1035283)

- Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent

are in the allowed range.

- CVE-2017-10972: Initialize the xEvent eventT with zeros to avoid

information leakage.

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6:

 

zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-6-2017-1149=1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2017-1149=1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:

 

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2017-1149=1

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 (x86_64):

 

xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-debugsource-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 (ppc64le x86_64):

 

xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-debugsource-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS (ppc64le s390x x86_64):

 

xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-debugsource-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo-7.6_1.15.2-53.3.1

 

 

References:

 

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10971.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10972.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1035283

 

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