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CVE-2008-1377

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2008-06-15 xorg -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2008-1377
Phase Assigned(20080318)

Description

The (1) SProcRecordCreateContext and (2) SProcRecordRegisterClients functions in the Record extension and the (3) SProcSecurityGenerateAuthorization function in the Security extension in the X server 1.4 in X.Org X11R7.3 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via requests with crafted length values that specify an arbitrary number of bytes to be swapped on the heap, which triggers heap corruption.

References

Source Reference
IDEFENSE 20080611 Multiple Vendor X Server Record and Security Extensions Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
BUGTRAQ 20080620 rPSA-2008-0200-1 xorg-server
BUGTRAQ 20080621 rPSA-2008-0201-1 xorg-x11 xorg-x11-fonts xorg-x11-tools xorg-x11-xfs
MLIST [xorg] 20080611 X.Org security advisory june 2008 - Multiple vulnerabilities in X server extensions
CONFIRM ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/xorg/X11R7.3/patches/xorg-xserver-1.4-cve-2008-1377.diff
CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0201
CONFIRM https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2607
CONFIRM https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2619
CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-249.htm
CONFIRM http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
APPLE APPLE-SA-2009-02-12
DEBIAN DSA-1595
GENTOO GLSA-200806-07
GENTOO GLSA-200807-07
HP HPSBUX02381
HP SSRT080083
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2008:116
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2008:115
REDHAT RHSA-2008:0502
REDHAT RHSA-2008:0504
REDHAT RHSA-2008:0512
REDHAT RHSA-2008:0503
SUNALERT 238686
SUSE SUSE-SA:2008:027
SUSE SUSE-SR:2008:019
UBUNTU USN-616-1
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10109
SECUNIA 32545
VUPEN ADV-2008-1803
VUPEN ADV-2008-1833
VUPEN ADV-2008-1983
SECTRACK 1020247
SECUNIA 30627
SECUNIA 30628
SECUNIA 30629
SECUNIA 30630
SECUNIA 30637
SECUNIA 30659
SECUNIA 30664
SECUNIA 30666
SECUNIA 30671
SECUNIA 30715
SECUNIA 30772
SECUNIA 30809
SECUNIA 30843
SECUNIA 31109
SECUNIA 32099
SECUNIA 31025
SECUNIA 33937
VUPEN ADV-2008-3000