Divide By Zero Affecting xorg-server package, versions <2:1.16.4-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.4% (74th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-XORGSERVER-326873
- published 13 Dec 2016
- disclosed 13 Dec 2016
Introduced: 13 Dec 2016
CVE-2015-3418 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
xorg-server
to version 2:1.16.4-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xorg-server
package and not the xorg-server
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
The ProcPutImage function in dix/dispatch.c in X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and crash) via a zero-height PutImage request.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3418
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-64
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc777c346d5d452a53b13b917c45f6a1bad2f20b
- https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-February/002532.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74328
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-3418