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Secunia Advisory SA9207

Sun Linux update for XFree86
Secunia Advisory SA9207
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Release Date 2003-07-08
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Privilege escalation
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Sun Linux 5.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2001-1409 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2002-0164 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2002-1510 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2003-0063 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2003-0071 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Sun has issued updated packages for XFree86, which fix various security issues.

Insecure permissions on "/dev/dri" has been fixed.

A vulnerability allowing users to read and write arbitrary shared memory has been fixed.

A vulnerability allowing malicious people to connect the to the X server if "authComplain" is false and the xdm auth directory doesn't exist has been fixed.

Escape sequences in Xterm could be used to manipulate the user. For more information see:
http://secunia.com/advisories/8146/


Solution
Updated packages:
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Subject: Sun Linux update for XFree86
 
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