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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0320-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0320-03 - An update for xorg-x11-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.
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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_0320.json
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: xorg-x11-server security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:0320-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0320
Issue date: 2024-01-22
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-6816
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Summary:
An update for xorg-x11-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
X.Org is an open-source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon.
Security Fix(es):
xorg-x11-server: Heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent and ProcXIQueryPointer (CVE-2023-6816)
xorg-x11-server: reattaching to different master device may lead to out-of-bounds memory access (CVE-2024-0229)
xorg-x11-server: SELinux unlabeled GLX PBuffer (CVE-2024-0408)
xorg-x11-server: SELinux context corruption (CVE-2024-0409)
xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent (CVE-2024-21885)
xorg-x11-server: heap buffer overflow in DisableDevice (CVE-2024-21886)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-6816
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256540
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256542
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256690
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257689
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257690
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257691
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