Debian Security Advisory DSA 2704-1 (mesa - Out Of Bounds Access) Network Vulnerability

Summary

It was discovered that applications using the mesa library, a free implementation of the OpenGL API, may crash or execute arbitrary code due to an out of bounds memory access in the library. This vulnerability only affects systems with Intel chipsets. The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.5-4+deb7u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.5-7. We recommend that you upgrade your mesa packages.

Insight

Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL API.

Affected

mesa on Debian Linux

Detection

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

References