Re: CVE Request: Missing input sanitation in various X GLX calls

[Vincent Danen <vdanen () redhat com>]

For more information on this, please see our bugzilla entry:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4818

I emailed ajax about this and it doesn't seem to be quite as scary as it sounds, and the bug has a good analysis of the 
various patches noted in the upstream bug report.

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28823
> is a tracker bug for input sanitation lacking in various GLX X calls.
>
> Reporter is me () halfdog net
>
> These can probably allow a attacker with access to the GLX calls
> (typically just the logged in user) to crash the X server or execute
> code within it.
>
> (Not thought about WebGL introduced crash potential here.)
>
> The lacking checks were reported and fixed in x.org git in 2010, so
> they
> probably need a 2010 CVE id. (Single one should be sufficient I
> guess.)

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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team