Security Information / 2013 / Security Information -- DSA-2673-1 libdmx

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2673-1 libdmx -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

23 May 2013

Affected Packages:

libdmx

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-1992.

More information:

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 1:1.1.0-2+squeeze1.

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

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

We recommend that you upgrade your libdmx packages.