oss-security - CVE request: X server crash by client

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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:00:22 +0200
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: OSS Security List <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
	xorg_security@...rg
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: CVE request: X server crash by client

Hi,

We got notified that the fix for CVE-2014-8092 introduced the possibility
of a division by 0 when the "height" for the PutImage call is 0, leading
to X server abort.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928520

This was already fixed in January in X git.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc777c346d5d452a53b13b917c45f6a1bad2f20b

As this is a local denial of service, but might be triggerable by images with 0 height
supplied externally, it might need a CVE.

Ciao, Marcus

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