Wednesday, June 5, 2013

[USN-1865-1] libxt vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1865-1
June 05, 2013

libxt vulnerabilities
==========================================================================

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 13.04
- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in libxt.

Software Description:
- libxt: X11 toolkit intrinsics 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:
libxt6 1:1.1.3-1ubuntu0.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
libxt6 1:1.1.3-1ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libxt6 1:1.1.1-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
libxt6 1:1.0.7-1ubuntu0.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1865-1
CVE-2013-2002, CVE-2013-2005

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxt/1:1.1.3-1ubuntu0.13.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxt/1:1.1.3-1ubuntu0.12.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxt/1:1.1.1-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxt/1:1.0.7-1ubuntu0.1

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