remote code execution

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The X windows system is vulnerable to several kind of vulner- abilities that are caused due to insufficient input validation. The bugs range from crashing the X server to executing arbitrary code with the privilges of the X server process. For a successful attack the opponent needs shell access to the vulnerable system (local) or an already established connection to the X server. Thanks to US CERT and iDefense for reporting this vulnerabilities and to the Xorg-Security folks for fixing it. The Fixes are: - CVE-2007-5760: XFree86 Misc extension out of bounds array index - CVE-2007-5958: File existence disclosure - CVE-2007-6427: Xinput extension memory corruption - CVE-2007-6428: TOG-cup extension memory corruption - CVE-2007-6429: MIT-SHM and EVI extensions integer overflows - CVE-2008-0006: PCF Font parser buffer overflow

Xorg and XFree on SUSE LINUX 10.1, openSUSE 10.2, openSUSE 10.3, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, SUSE SLES 9, Novell Linux Desktop 9, Open Enterprise Server, Novell Linux POS 9, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1, SLE SDK 10 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1

• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/xorg_sec_prob.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25