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net-misc/nx contains a modified version of XFree86 4.3.0 in the file
nx-X11-2.1.0-3.tar.gz. That file contains xfree code from February 2003 that
is, by itself, vulnerable to several issues reported since then. I am unaware
whether the package was patched for some of the earlier issues, but I verified
the code is unpatched for:

* CVE-2007-1003 (Integer overflow in ALLOCATE_LOCAL in the ProcXCMiscGetXIDList
function in the XC-MISC extension)
in nx-X11/programs/Xserver/Xext/xcmisc.c

* CVE-2007-1351 (Integer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in
bdfread.c)
in nx-x11/lib/font/bitmap/bdfread.c

* CVE-2007-1352 (Integer overflow in the FontFileInitTable function)
in nx-x11/lib/font/fontfile/fontdir.c

* CVE-2007-1667 (Multiple integer overflows in (1) the XGetPixel function in
ImUtil.c, and (2) XInitImage)
in nx-x11/lib/X11/ImUtil.c

* CVE-2006-6101 CVE-2006-6102 CVE-2006-6103 (Multiple integer overflows in dbe
and render extensions)

* CVE-2006-3739 CVE-2006-3740 (Integer overflows in handling CID encoded Type1
fonts)

This code is compiled and statically linked into the nxagent (nx X server)
executable. I believe the privilege escalations are not issues here because
nxagent is running with user rights. Nevertheless some might be a security
problem.

As far as I saw, nx is only used for the GPL NX server "nxserver-freenx" and
not for nxserver-freeedition. nx is stable on x86 as per bug 180040.

nx, what's your advice?

net-misc/nxnode's (for the freeedition server) nxagent is built from the same
code , so it's vulnerable as well

The 2.x branch (based on xfree) is not maintained anymore upstream, replaced in
favor of 3.x (xorg-based and maintained).

So I'd recommend dropping nxnode 2.1* (and nxserver-freeeedition 2.1 that only
works with it), and only leave 3.0: this will require x86 stabilization for
nxclient-3.0.0-r3 (3.0 version is required by nxnode 3.0), nxnode-3.0.0-r2 and
nxserver-freeedition-3.0.0-r2

For freenx, a patch was released to get freenx-0.7 working with a nx-3.0
package. I have to make new nx and nxserver-freenx packages for that, after
that we can test (and mark) them stable on x86, and drop the remaining 2.x
packages

Setting whiteboard to B2 because the codebase might allow code execution when
using a manipulated fonts with the old freetype code. [1] The vulnerabilities
quoted above are privilege escalations and I do not think they're an issue
here.

[1] http://secunia.com/advisories/21446/

Bernard, thanks for pointing out the dependencies. To sum up, we have two
vulnerable packages:
1) net-misc/nx-2.1.0
2) net-misc/nxnode-2.1.0

net-misc/nx-3.0.0 and net-misc/nxserver-freenx-0.7.0-r1 (that works with nx3)
are in portage now

Thanks a lot, Bernard.

x86, please test and mark stable:
net-misc/nx
net-misc/nxclient
net-misc/nxnode
net-misc/nxserver-freeedition
(all in the latest 3.0.0 versions)

net-misc/nxserver-freenx-0.7.0-r1

I see a new net-misc/nx-3.0.0:
nx-3.0.0.ebuild 1.1   8 hours   voyageur   Version bump to new 3.0.0 branch,...
but nothing in net-misc/nxserver-freenx:
nxserver-freenx-0.6.0.ebuild 1.5   2 months   opfer   stable x86, bug 180040 
nxserver-freenx-0.7.0.ebuild 1.1   5 weeks   voyageur   Version bump 
(from sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py)

CVS commit borked? Because the freenx-0.7.0 version in portage still depends on
~net-misc/nx-2.1.0

Seems like the new freenx was committed after the comment here, but it's in CVS
now.

Sorry for the delay, I missed the enter key after "repoman commit", and only
realized it when I did not see it appear on mirrors at the same time as
nx-3.0.0. The new version is 0.7.0-r1, not 0.7.0 (a patch is needed to use nx
3.0.0)

 * Running NoMachine's update script
NX> 701 Updating: server at: Mi Sep 19 16:44:59 2007.
NX> 701 Autodetected system: gentoo.
NX> 701 Update log is: /usr/NX/var/log/update.
NX> 701 Checking NX server configuration using /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg file.
NX> 701 ERROR: Output: chown: cannot access
`/usr/NX/etc/keys/node.localhost.id_dsa': No such file or directory.
NX> 701 ERROR: Cannot set ownership attributes for
'/usr/NX/etc/keys/node.localhost.id_dsa' to 'nx:root'.
 *
 * ERROR: net-misc/nxserver-freeedition-3.0.0-r3 failed.

/usr/NX/etc/server.cfg is created by the setup script on first installation, at
that time the files in /usr/NX/etc/keys are created. So when updating
(determined by server.cfg already existing in the ebuild), these files should
be there... A leftover incorrect /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg ?

x86 stable, last arch, glsa to be requested, thus changing whiteboard

glsa request filed.

GLSA 200710-09