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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:40:10 +0200
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, xorg_security@...rg
Subject: Re: Re: CVE request: X server crash by client
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:22:20PM -0400, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Use CVE-2015-3418.
thanks!
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928520
>
> This currently doesn't seem to be a public bug - we don't know whether
> that's intentional.
opened it... was not open as it was under another product before.
Ciao, Marcus
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