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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702676
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2676-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libxfixes' package(s) announced via the DSA-2676-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libxfixes' package(s) announced via the DSA-2676-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in multiple components of the X.org graphics stack and the related libraries: Various integer overflows, sign handling errors in integer conversions, buffer overflows, memory corruption and missing input sanitising may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:4.0.5-1+squeeze1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:5.0-4+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:5.0-4+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxfixes packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'libxfixes' package(s) on Debian 6, Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-1983
Debian Security Information: DSA-2676 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2676
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106794.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/23/3
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:1014 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00144.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1858-1
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2013 Greenbone AG

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