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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:

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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