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| author | Niclas Zeising <zeising@FreeBSD.org> | 2017-12-17 15:23:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Niclas Zeising <zeising@FreeBSD.org> | 2017-12-17 15:23:50 +0000 |
| commit | c475853c948a404fb633b6e6fc27308641823056 (patch) | |
| tree | 961bc78918f8fa75181a07220eca05e81b118654 | |
| parent | 702927374235d7d8c23d08835dc24fdbd0e86a8f (diff) | |
| download | freebsd-ports-c475853c948a404fb633b6e6fc27308641823056.zip | |
Document x11/libXcursor -- integer overflow that can lead to heap buffer
overflow.
CVE-2017-16612
| -rw-r--r-- | security/vuxml/vuln.xml | 39 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/vuxml/vuln.xml b/security/vuxml/vuln.xml index c63b772478e2..13f6cdd14139 100644 --- a/security/vuxml/vuln.xml +++ b/security/vuxml/vuln.xml @@ -58,6 +58,45 @@ Notes: * Do not forget port variants (linux-f10-libxml2, libxml2, etc.) --> <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1"> + <vuln vid="ddecde18-e33b-11e7-a293-54e1ad3d6335"> + <topic>libXcursor -- integer overflow that can lead to heap buffer overflow</topic> + <affects> + <package> + <name>libXcursor</name> + <range><lt>1.1.15</lt></range> + </package> + </affects> + <description> + <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <p>The freedesktop.org project reports:</p> + <blockquote cite="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/339"> + <p>It is possible to trigger heap overflows due to an integer + overflow while parsing images and a signedness issue while + parsing comments.</p> + <p>The integer overflow occurs because the chosen limit 0x10000 + for dimensions is too large for 32 bit systems, because each pixel + takes 4 bytes. Properly chosen values allow an overflow which in + turn will lead to less allocated memory than needed for subsequent + reads.</p> + <p>The signedness bug is triggered by reading the length of a comment + as unsigned int, but casting it to int when calling the function + XcursorCommentCreate. Turning length into a negative value allows + the check against XCURSOR_COMMENT_MAX_LEN to pass, and the following + addition of sizeof (XcursorComment) + 1 makes it possible to + allocate less memory than needed for subsequent reads.</p> + </blockquote> + </body> + </description> + <references> + <url>http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/339</url> + <url>https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=4794b5dd34688158fb51a2943032569d3780c4b8</url> + </references> + <dates> + <discovery>2017-11-28</discovery> + <entry>2017-12-17</entry> + </dates> + </vuln> + <vuln vid="48cca164-e269-11e7-be51-6599c735afc8"> <topic>global -- gozilla vulnerability</topic> <affects> |