Security Bulletin: IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot is affected by vulnerability in X.Org libX11 (CVE-2013-1997)

Summary

IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot has addressed the following vulnerability in X.Org libX11.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot has addressed the following vulnerability in X.Org libX11.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2013-1997

Description: X.Org libX11 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by multiple integer overflow errors within the XAllocColorCells(), _XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply(), _XkbReadGeomShapes(), _XkbReadGetGeometryReply(), _XkbReadKeySyms(), _XkbReadKeyActions(), _XkbReadKeyBehaviors(), _XkbReadModifierMap(), _XkbReadExplicitComponents(), _XkbReadVirtualModMap(), _XkbReadGetNamesReply(), _XkbReadGetMapReply(), _XimXGetReadData(), XListFonts(), XListExtensions(), and XGetFontPath() functions. By sending specially-crafted data, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84495&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected products and versions

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central: <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

References

• Complete CVSS V2 Guide
• On-line Calculator V2

Related Information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
21 November, 2017: Original Version Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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