Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xfs (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-XFS-646610
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed21 Dec 2012
Introduced: 21 Dec 2012
CVE-2012-1699 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xfs package and not the xfs package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The ProcSetEventMask function in difs/events.c in the xfs font server for X.Org X11R6 through X11R6.6 and XFree86 before 3.3.3 calls the SendErrToClient function with a mask value instead of a pointer, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) or obtain potentially sensitive information from memory via a SetEventMask request that triggers an invalid pointer dereference.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-1699
- https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_1699_denial_of
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=135765511704334&w=2
- http://invisible-island.net/ansification/ansify-xfs-cve.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842841
- http://twitter.com/bsdaemon/status/228958599790071809
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2012-July/002040.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19369