Debian Security Advisory
DLA-684-1 libx11 -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 26 Oct 2016
- Affected Packages:
- libx11
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 840439.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-7942, CVE-2016-7943. - More information:
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Tobias Stoeckmann from the OpenBSD project discovered the following vulnerability in libX11, the X11 client-side library:
Insufficient validation of data from the X server can cause out of boundary memory read (XGetImage()) or write (XListFonts()).
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u3.We recommend that you upgrade your libx11 packages.
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