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CVE request: X server crash by client
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:00:22 +0200
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. Ciao, Marcus
Current thread:
- CVE request: X server crash by client Marcus Meissner (Apr 24)
- Re: CVE request: X server crash by client cve-assign (Apr 24)
- Re: Re: CVE request: X server crash by client Marcus Meissner (Apr 25)
- Re: CVE request: X server crash by client Alan Coopersmith (Apr 27)
- Re: CVE request: X server crash by client cve-assign (Apr 24)