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Message-ID: <553EC6EB.3070403@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:31:55 -0700
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>, xorg_security@...rg,
cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: X server crash by client
On 04/24/15 08:00 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928520
>
> 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.
Right - the ability of an already authenticated client to end the X session is
generally not considered a vulnerability in Xorg, since we provide intentional
mechanism to do so already, but doing so because an external data source (web
site, document file, etc.) provided a bad image could be.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
X.Org Security Response Team - xorg-security@...ts.x.org
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