SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (SUSE-SU-2015:0047-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83664

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This X.Org update fixes the following security issues :

- denial of service due to unchecked malloc in client authentication (CVE-2014-8091)

- integer overflows calculating memory needs for requests:
CVE-2014-8092: X11 core protocol requests CVE-2014-8093:
GLX extension CVE-2014-8094: DRI2 extension

- out of bounds access due to not validating length or offset values in requests: CVE-2014-8095: XInput extension CVE-2014-8096: XC-MISC extension CVE-2014-8097: DBE extension CVE-2014-8098: GLX extension CVE-2014-8099: XVideo extension CVE-2014-8100:
Render extension CVE-2014-8101: RandR extension CVE-2014-8102: XFixes extension CVE-2014-8103: DRI3 and Present extensions

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-18

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-18

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-18

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83664

File Name: suse_SU-2015-0047-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-server-extra-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-server-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-server-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-server-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-server

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8091, CVE-2014-8092, CVE-2014-8093, CVE-2014-8094, CVE-2014-8095, CVE-2014-8096, CVE-2014-8097, CVE-2014-8098, CVE-2014-8099, CVE-2014-8100, CVE-2014-8101, CVE-2014-8102, CVE-2014-8103

BID: 71595, 71596, 71597, 71598, 71599, 71600, 71601, 71602, 71603, 71604, 71605, 71606, 71608

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