ubuntu · CVE-2007-6429

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Priority: medium Published: 2008-01-18 23:00:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2007-6429 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (xorg-server), 5 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, upstream): released 4, pending 1.

Description:

Multiple integer overflows in X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a GetVisualInfo request containing a 32-bit value that is improperly used to calculate an amount of memory for allocation by the EVI extension, or (2) a request containing values related to pixmap size that are improperly used in management of shared memory by the MIT-SHM extension.

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