[SECURITY] [DSA 2691-1] libxinerama security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2691-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
May 23, 2013 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : libxinerama
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2013-1985

Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in
multiple components of the X.org graphics stack and the related
libraries: Various integer overflows, sign handling errors in integer
conversions, buffer overflows, memory corruption and missing input
sanitising may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1-3+squeeze1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.2-1+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.2-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxinerama packages.

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