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Medium ALAS2-2019-1226 2 CVEs

Moderate: libX11 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 11, 2019 · Updated Jun 13, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-14599: An off-by-one error has been discovered in libX11 in functions XGetFontPath(), XListExtensions(), and XListFonts(). An attacker who can either configure a malicious X server or modify the data coming from one could use this flaw to make the program crash or have other unspecified effects, caused by the memory corruption. 1623250: CVE-2018-14599 libX11: off-by-one error in XListExtensions in ListExt.c CVE-2018-14598: It was discovered that libX11 does not properly validate input coming from the server, causing XListExtensions() and XGetFontPath() functions to produce an invalid list of elements that in turn make XFreeExtensionsList() and XFreeFontPath() access invalid memory. An attacker who can either configure a malicious X server or modify the data coming from one, could use this flaw to crash the application using libX11, resulting in a denial of service. 1623238: CVE-2018-14598 libX11: Crash on invalid reply in XListExtensions in ListExt.c

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libX11 0:1.6.5-2.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libX11-common 0:1.6.5-2.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libX11-debuginfo 0:1.6.5-2.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libX11-devel 0:1.6.5-2.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-14598.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-14599.html