RHEL 4 : xorg-x11 (RHSA-2005:198)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 18443

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for xorg-x11.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2005:198 advisory.

X.Org X11 is the X Window System which provides the core functionality of the Linux GUI desktop.

An integer overflow flaw was found in libXpm, which is used by some applications for loading of XPM images. An attacker could create a carefully crafted XPM file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with libXpm to execute arbitrary code when the file was opened by a victim. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0605 to this issue.

Since the initial release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, a number of issues have been addressed in the X.Org X11 X Window System. This erratum also updates X11R6.8 to the latest stable point release (6.8.2), which includes various stability and reliability fixes including (but not limited to) the following:

- The 'radeon' driver has been modified to disable RENDER acceleration by default, due to a bug in the implementation which has not yet been isolated. This can be manually re-enabled by using the following option in the device section of the X server config file:

Option RenderAccel

- The 'vmware' video driver is now available on 64-bit AMD64 and compatible systems.

- The Intel 'i810' video driver is now available on 64-bit EM64T systems.

- Stability fixes in the X Server's PCI handling layer for 64-bit systems, which resolve some issues reported by vesa and nv driver users.

- Support for Hewlett Packard's Itanium ZX2 chipset.

- Nvidia nv video driver update provides support for some of the newer Nvidia chipsets, as well as many stability and reliability fixes.

- Intel i810 video driver stability update, which fixes the widely reported i810/i815 screen refresh issues many have experienced.

- Packaging fixes for multilib systems, which permit both 32-bit and 64-bit X11 development environments to be simultaneously installed without file conflicts.

In addition to the above highlights, the X.Org X11 6.8.2 release has a large number of additional stability fixes which resolve various other issues reported since the initial release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

All users of X11 should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL xorg-x11 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:198.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 18443

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-198.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/10/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-0605

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-xvfb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-deprecated-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-xdm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-cyrillic, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-iso8859-14-75dpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-iso8859-9-75dpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-truetype, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-xdmx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-iso8859-14-100dpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-syriac, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-iso8859-9-100dpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-xnest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-iso8859-15-75dpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-xauth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-mesa-libgl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-iso8859-2-75dpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-font-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-100dpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-mesa-libglu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-iso8859-15-100dpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-sdk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-iso8859-2-100dpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fonts-xorg-75dpi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-twm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-xfs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0605

RHSA: 2005:198

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