Bug 497836 (CVE-2013-1056)

Summary:	<x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.4: Denial of Service (CVE-2013-1056)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	x11
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2014-01-11 22:42:55 UTC

CVE-2013-1056 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1056):
  X.org X server 1.13.3 and earlier, when not run as root, allows local users
  to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly gain privileges via vectors
  involving cached xkb files.

Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2014-01-12 11:41:11 UTC

No package in tree is affected by this, the oldest xorg-server ebuild in tree where suid is optional is 1.13.4-r1. Older versions always run as root.

Comment 2 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2014-01-30 19:38:18 UTC

Added to existing GLSA draft

Comment 3 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2014-05-15 12:18:57 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201405-07 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-07.xml
by GLSA coordinator Mikle Kolyada (Zlogene).