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Debian DLA-1026-1 : xorg-server security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 101552

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-10971

 A user authenticated to an X Session could crash or execute code in the context of the X Server by exploiting a stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events.

CVE-2017-10972

 Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.12.4-6+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your xorg-server packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/07/msg00018.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/xorg-server

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101552

File Name: debian_DLA-1026.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xnest, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xserver-xorg-core, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xdmx, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xdmx-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xserver-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xvfb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xserver-xephyr, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xserver-xorg-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xserver-xorg-core-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xserver-xfbdev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xserver-xorg-core-dbg

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10971, CVE-2017-10972