CVE-2013-1997

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-1997
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-06-15 20:55:00 UTC
Updated2013-12-01 04:27:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple buffer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 (1.6 RC1) and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the (1) XAllocColorCells, (2) _XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply, (3) _XkbReadGeomShapes, (4) _XkbReadGetGeometryReply, (5) _XkbReadKeySyms, (6) _XkbReadKeyActions, (7) _XkbReadKeyBehaviors, (8) _XkbReadModifierMap, (9) _XkbReadExplicitComponents, (10) _XkbReadVirtualModMap, (11) _XkbReadGetNamesReply, (12) _XkbReadGetMapReply, (13) _XimXGetReadData, (14) XListFonts, (15) XListExtensions, and (16) XGetFontPath functions.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application X Libx11 1.5.0 All All All
Application X Libx11 1.5.0 All All All
Application X Libx11 All All All All

References

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[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: libX11-1.5.99.901-3.20130524gita3bdd2b09.fc19 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] X.Org Security Advisory: Protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries MLIST www.openwall.com
USN-1854-1: libx11 vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
X.Org Security Advisory: May 23, 2013 CONFIRM www.x.org Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2693-1 libx11 DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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