Product: Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris

Multiple integer, heap and buffer overflow security vulnerabilities exist in the Render, RECORD, Security, and MIT-SHM Extensions to the Solaris X11 display server (Xorg(1) and Xsun(1)) and the Solaris X11 print server (Xprt(1)).  These vulnerabilities may allow a local or remote unprivileged user who is authorized (via xhost(1) or xauth(1)) to connect to the X server and execute arbitrary code with root privileges, access arbitrary memory within the X server's address space, or crash the X11 display server process. The ability to crash the X11 display server is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).

These issues are described in the following documents:


State: Resolved
First released: 12-Jun-2008
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