National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-4818

Overview

The GLX extension in X.Org xserver 1.7.7 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted request that triggers a client swap in glx/glxcmdsswap.c; or (2) a crafted length or (3) a negative value in the screen field in a request to glx/glxcmds.c.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?id=ec9c97c6bf70b523bc500bd3adf62176f1bb33a4

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?id=ec9c97c6bf70b523bc500bd3adf62176f1bb33a4

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740954

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740954

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28823

Hyperlink:https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28823

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110923 Re: CVE Request: Missing input sanitation in various X GLX calls

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/23/6

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110923 Re: CVE Request: Missing input sanitation in various X GLX calls

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/23/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110922 CVE Request: Missing input sanitation in various X GLX calls

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/22/7

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1360

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1360.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1359

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1359.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?id=6c69235a9dfc52e4b4e47630ff4bab1a820eb543

Hyperlink:http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?id=6c69235a9dfc52e4b4e47630ff4bab1a820eb543

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?id=3f0d3f4d97bce75c1828635c322b6560a45a037f

Hyperlink:http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?id=3f0d3f4d97bce75c1828635c322b6560a45a037f