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diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/xorg-server-CVE-2017-10972.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/xorg-server-CVE-2017-10972.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f24e9c0ae6 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/xorg-server-CVE-2017-10972.patch @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +From 05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Michal Srb <msrb@suse.com> +Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 15:54:39 +0300 +Subject: Xi: Zero target buffer in SProcXSendExtensionEvent. + +Make sure that the xEvent eventT is initialized with zeros, the same way as +in SProcSendEvent. + +Some event swapping functions do not overwrite all 32 bytes of xEvent +structure, for example XSecurityAuthorizationRevoked. Two cooperating +clients, one swapped and the other not, can send +XSecurityAuthorizationRevoked event to each other to retrieve old stack data +from X server. This can be potentialy misused to go around ASLR or +stack-protector. + +Signed-off-by: Michal Srb <msrb@suse.com> +Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> +Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> + +diff --git a/Xi/sendexev.c b/Xi/sendexev.c +index 11d8202..1cf118a 100644 +--- a/Xi/sendexev.c ++++ b/Xi/sendexev.c +@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ SProcXSendExtensionEvent(ClientPtr client) + { + CARD32 *p; + int i; +- xEvent eventT; ++ xEvent eventT = { .u.u.type = 0 }; + xEvent *eventP; + EventSwapPtr proc; + +-- +cgit v0.10.2 + |