[Technik] [SECURITY] [DSA 1193-1] New XFree86 packages fix several vulnerabilities

[Noèl Köthe]

Am Montag, den 09.10.2006, 18:58 +0200 schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:

> Debian Security Advisory DSA 1193-1                    security at debian.org
> http://www.debian.org/security/                         Moritz Muehlenhoff
> October 9th, 2006                       http://www.debian.org/security/faq
> 
> Package        : xfree86
> Vulnerability  : several
> Problem-Type   : local(remote)
> Debian-specific: no
> CVE ID         : CVE-2006-3467 CVE-2006-3739 CVE-2006-3740 CVE-2006-4447

xfree86 auf pima, pomo, yuma, cusa, crow, cree, acoma, h01, h02, h03 und
cupa aktualisiert.

> For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
> version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2. This release lacks builds for the

changelog:
xfree86 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2) stable-security; urgency=high

  * Security update release.  Resolves the following issues:
    + CVE-2006-3467: integer overflow in FreeType before 2.2 allows remote
      attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute
      arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
    + CVE-2006-3739: Integer overflow in CIDADM font handling allows
      code injection.
    + CVE-2006-3740: Integer overflow in scan_cidfont font handling allows
      code injection.
    + CVE-2006-4447: Proper setuid() return value check, prevents potential
      privilege escalation.
    + freetype buffer overflow (no known exploits).

 -- Frans Pop <fjp at debian.org>  Sun,  1 Oct 2006 10:37:26 +0200

-- 
Noèl Köthe <noel debian.org>
Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org
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