Ubuntu Security Notice 1862-1 - Ilja van Sprundel discovered multiple security issues in various X.org libraries and components. An attacker could use these issues to cause applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1862-1
June 05, 2013
libxrandr, libxrandr-lts-quantal vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 13.04
- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary:
Several security issues were fixed in libxrandr.
Software Description:
- libxrandr: X11 RandR extension library
- libxrandr-lts-quantal: X11 RandR extension library
Details:
Ilja van Sprundel discovered multiple security issues in various X.org
libraries and components. An attacker could use these issues to cause
applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 13.04:
libxrandr2 2:1.4.0-1ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 12.10:
libxrandr2 2:1.4.0-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libxrandr-ltsq2 2:1.4.0-1~precise2
libxrandr2 2:1.3.2-2ubuntu0.2
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1862-1
CVE-2013-1986
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxrandr/2:1.4.0-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxrandr/2:1.4.0-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxrandr/2:1.3.2-2ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxrandr-lts-quantal/2:1.4.0-1~precise2