Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 18:00:32 +0000 (UTC) From: Koop Mast <kwm@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r423472 - head/security/vuxml Message-ID: <201610071800.u97I0WZq043801@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: kwm Date: Fri Oct 7 18:00:32 2016 New Revision: 423472 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/423472 Log: Document X.org client libraries insufficient validation of data from the X server vulnabilities. Security: CVE-2016-5407 Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml ============================================================================== --- head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Fri Oct 7 17:20:56 2016 (r423471) +++ head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Fri Oct 7 18:00:32 2016 (r423472) @@ -58,6 +58,77 @@ Notes: * Do not forget port variants (linux-f10-libxml2, libxml2, etc.) --> <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1">; + <vuln vid="1cf65085-a760-41d2-9251-943e1af62eb8"> + <topic>X.org libraries -- multiple vulnabilities</topic> + <affects> + <package> + <name>libX11</name> + <range><lt>1.6.4,1</lt></range> + </package> + <package> + <name>libXfixes</name> + <range><lt>5.0.2</lt></range> + </package> + <package> + <name>libXi</name> + <range><lt>1.7.7,1</lt></range> + </package> + <package> + <name>libXrandr</name> + <range><lt>1.5.1</lt></range> + </package> + <package> + <name>libXrender</name> + <range><lt>0.9.10</lt></range> + </package> + <package> + <name>libXtst</name> + <range><lt>1.2.3</lt></range> + </package> + <package> + <name>libXv</name> + <range><lt>1.0.11,1</lt></range> + </package> + <package> + <name>libXvMC</name> + <range><lt>1.0.10</lt></range> + </package> + </affects> + <description> + <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">; + <p>Matthieu Herrb reports:</p> + <blockquote cite="https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html">; + <p>Tobias Stoeckmann from the OpenBSD project has discovered a + number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle + the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with + X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. + These issue come in addition to the ones discovered by Ilja van + Sprundel in 2013.</p> + + <p>Most of these issues stem from the client libraries trusting + the server to send correct protocol data, and not verifying + that the values will not overflow or cause other damage. Most + of the time X clients and servers are run by the same user, with + the server more privileged than the clients, so this is not a + problem, but there are scenarios in which a privileged client + can be connected to an unprivileged server, for instance, + connecting a setuid X client (such as a screen lock program) + to a virtual X server (such as Xvfb or Xephyr) which the user + has modified to return invalid data, potentially allowing the + user to escalate their privileges.</p> + </blockquote> + </body> + </description> + <references> + <url>https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html</url>; + <cvename>CVE-2016-5407</cvename> + </references> + <dates> + <discovery>2016-10-04</discovery> + <entry>2016-10-07</entry> + </dates> + </vuln> + <vuln vid="c8d902b1-8550-11e6-81e7-d050996490d0"> <topic>BIND -- Remote Denial of Service vulnerability</topic> <affects>
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