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Message-Id: <20150425032220.EB99F6C0032@smtpvmsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:22:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: meissner@...e.de
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, xorg_security@...rg
Subject: Re: CVE request: X server crash by client

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> We got notified that the fix for CVE-2014-8092 introduced the possibility
> of a division by 0 when the "height" for the PutImage call is 0, leading
> to X server abort.
> 
> This was already fixed in January in X git.
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc777c346d5d452a53b13b917c45f6a1bad2f20b
> 
> As this is a local denial of service, but might be triggerable by images with 0 height
> supplied externally, it might need a CVE.

Use CVE-2015-3418.

> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928520

This currently doesn't seem to be a public bug - we don't know whether
that's intentional.

- -- 
CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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