openSUSE Security Update: libXfont: Fixed multiple vulnerabilities ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:0711-1 Rating: moderate References: #857544 Cross-References: CVE-2014-0209 CVE-2014-0210 CVE-2014-0211 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 openSUSE 12.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available. Description: libxfont was updated to fix multiple vulnerabilities: - Integer overflow of allocations in font metadata file parsing (CVE-2014-0209). - Unvalidated length fields when parsing xfs protocol replies (CVE-2014-0210). - Integer overflows calculating memory needs for xfs replies (CVE-2014-0211). These vulnerabilities could be used by a local, authenticated user to raise privileges or by a remote attacker with control of the font server to execute code with the privileges of the X server. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 13.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-391 - openSUSE 12.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-391 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64): libXfont-debugsource-1.4.6-2.8.1 libXfont-devel-1.4.6-2.8.1 libXfont1-1.4.6-2.8.1 libXfont1-debuginfo-1.4.6-2.8.1 - openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64): libXfont-devel-32bit-1.4.6-2.8.1 libXfont1-32bit-1.4.6-2.8.1 libXfont1-debuginfo-32bit-1.4.6-2.8.1 - openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64): libXfont-debugsource-1.4.5-4.8.1 libXfont-devel-1.4.5-4.8.1 libXfont1-1.4.5-4.8.1 libXfont1-debuginfo-1.4.5-4.8.1 - openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64): libXfont-devel-32bit-1.4.5-4.8.1 libXfont1-32bit-1.4.5-4.8.1 libXfont1-debuginfo-32bit-1.4.5-4.8.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0209.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0210.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0211.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/857544