CVE-2017-12179

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was vulnerable to integer overflow in (S)ProcXIBarrierReleasePointer functions allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was vulnerable to integer overflow in (S)ProcXIBarrierReleasePointer functions allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was vulnerable to integer overflow in (S)ProcXIBarrierReleasePointer functions allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

The upstream 1.19.4 update we pushed as: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0366.html introduced a regression in PRIME syncronization.

Upstream released a 1.19.5 that fixes that and a lot of security fixes: CVE-2017-12176 to CVE-2017-12187

Also added a fix for "XShmGetImage: fix censoring" that is described as: "Visually this fixes chromium/firefox window sharing in multiscreen configurations - without this patch most of the windows on 'secondary' screens are black."

This also should fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101730.

This update for xorg-x11-server provides several fixes.

These security issues were fixed:

• CVE-2017-13723: Prevent local DoS via unusual characters in XkbAtomText and XkbStringText (bsc#1051150).
• Improve the entropy when generating random data used in X.org server authorization cookies generation by using getentropy() and getrandom() when available (bsc#1025084)
• CVE-2017-12184,CVE-2017-12185,CVE-2017-12186,CVE-2017-12187: Fixed unvalidated lengths in multiple extensions (bsc#1063034)
• CVE-2017-12183: Fixed some unvalidated lengths in the XFIXES extension. (bsc#1063035)
• CVE-2017-12180,CVE-2017-12181,CVE-2017-12182: Fixed various unvalidated lengths in the XFree86-VidMode/XFree86-DGA/XFree86-DRI extensions (bsc#1063037)
• CVE-2017-12179: Fixed an integer overflow and unvalidated length in (S)ProcXIBarrierReleasePointer in Xi (bsc#1063038)
• CVE-2017-12178: Fixed a wrong extra length check in ProcXIChangeHierarchy in Xi (bsc#1063039)
• CVE-2017-12177: Fixed an unvalidated variable-length request in ProcDbeGetVisualInfo (bsc#1063040)
• CVE-2017-12176: Fixed an unvalidated extra length in ProcEstablishConnection (bsc#1063041)

This update for xorg-x11-server fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

• CVE-2017-13721: Missing validation of shmseg resource id in Xext/XShm could lead to shared memory segments of other users beeing freed (bnc#1052984)
• CVE-2017-13723: A local denial of service via unusual characters in XkbAtomText and XkbStringText was fixed (bnc#1051150)
• CVE-2017-12184,CVE-2017-12185,CVE-2017-12186,CVE-2017-12187: Fixed unvalidated lengths in multiple extensions (bsc#1063034)
• CVE-2017-12183: Fixed some unvalidated lengths in the XFIXES extension. (bsc#1063035)
• CVE-2017-12180,CVE-2017-12181,CVE-2017-12182: Fixed various unvalidated lengths in the XFree86-VidMode/XFree86-DGA/XFree86-DRI extensions (bsc#1063037)
• CVE-2017-12179: Fixed an integer overflow and unvalidated length in (S)ProcXIBarrierReleasePointer in Xi (bsc#1063038)
• CVE-2017-12178: Fixed a wrong extra length check in ProcXIChangeHierarchy in Xi (bsc#1063039)
• CVE-2017-12177: Fixed an unvalidated variable-length request in ProcDbeGetVisualInfo (bsc#1063040)
• CVE-2017-12176: Fixed an unvalidated extra length in ProcEstablishConnection (bsc#1063041)

These non-security issues were fixed:

• Make colormap/gamma glue code work with the RandR extension disabled. This prevents it from crashing and showing wrong colors. (bsc#1061107)
• Recognize ssh as a remote client to fix launching applications remotely when using DRI3. (bsc#1022727)

It was discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled certain lengths. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use these issues to crash the server, or possibly execute arbitrary code.