libXfont security update

2014-01-1010:35:58

CentOS Project

lists.centos.org

9.3 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.217 Low

EPSS

Percentile

96.5%

JSON

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0018

The libXfont packages provide the X.Org libXfont runtime library. X.Org is
an open source implementation of the X Window System.

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the libXfont
library parsed Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) fonts. A malicious,
local user could exploit this issue to potentially execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the X.Org server. (CVE-2013-6462)

Users of libXfont should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
a backported patch to resolve this issue. All running X.Org server
instances must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/082265.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/082266.html

Affected packages:
libXfont
libXfont-devel

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0018

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
CentOS5i386libxfont< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.i386.rpm
CentOS5i386libxfont-devel< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.i386.rpm
CentOS5i386libxfont< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.i386.rpm
CentOS5x86_64libxfont< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
CentOS5i386libxfont-devel< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.i386.rpm
CentOS5x86_64libxfont-devel< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
CentOS6i686libxfont< 1.4.5-3.el6_5libXfont-1.4.5-3.el6_5.i686.rpm
CentOS6i686libxfont-devel< 1.4.5-3.el6_5libXfont-devel-1.4.5-3.el6_5.i686.rpm
CentOS6i686libxfont< 1.4.5-3.el6_5libXfont-1.4.5-3.el6_5.i686.rpm
CentOS6x86_64libxfont< 1.4.5-3.el6_5libXfont-1.4.5-3.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
CentOS	5	i386	libxfont	< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10	libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.i386.rpm
CentOS	5	i386	libxfont-devel	< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10	libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.i386.rpm
CentOS	5	i386	libxfont	< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10	libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.i386.rpm
CentOS	5	x86_64	libxfont	< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10	libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
CentOS	5	i386	libxfont-devel	< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10	libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.i386.rpm
CentOS	5	x86_64	libxfont-devel	< 1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10	libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
CentOS	6	i686	libxfont	< 1.4.5-3.el6_5	libXfont-1.4.5-3.el6_5.i686.rpm
CentOS	6	i686	libxfont-devel	< 1.4.5-3.el6_5	libXfont-devel-1.4.5-3.el6_5.i686.rpm
CentOS	6	i686	libxfont	< 1.4.5-3.el6_5	libXfont-1.4.5-3.el6_5.i686.rpm
CentOS	6	x86_64	libxfont	< 1.4.5-3.el6_5	libXfont-1.4.5-3.el6_5.x86_64.rpm