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Synopsis: Important: libXfont security update
Issue Date: 2011-08-11
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-2895
CVE-2011-2895
The libXfont packages provide the X.Org libXfont runtime library. X.Org
is an open source implementation of the X Window System.
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the libXfont library, used
by the X.Org server, handled malformed font files compressed using UNIX
compress. A malicious, local user could exploit this issue to
potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org
server. (CVE-2011-2895)
Users of libXfont should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. All running X.Org
server instances must be restarted for the update to take effect.
SL5:
i386
libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.4.el5_7.i386.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.4.el5_7.i386.rpm
x86_64
libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.4.el5_7.i386.rpm
libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.4.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.4.el5_7.i386.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.4.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
SL6:
i386
libXfont-1.4.1-2.el6_1.i686.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.4.1-2.el6_1.i686.rpm
x86_64
libXfont-1.4.1-2.el6_1.i686.rpm
libXfont-1.4.1-2.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.4.1-2.el6_1.i686.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.4.1-2.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
- Scientific Linux Development Team
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