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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.72058
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2011:153 (libxfont)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to libxfont
announced via advisory MDVSA-2011:153.

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in libxfont:

The LZW decompressor in (1) the BufCompressedFill function in
fontfile/decompress.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.4 and (2)
compress/compress.c in 4.3BSD, as used in zopen.c in OpenBSD before
3.8, FreeBSD, NetBSD, FreeType 2.1.9, and other products, does not
properly handle code words that are absent from the decompression
table when encountered, which allows context-dependent attackers
to trigger an infinite loop or a heap-based buffer overflow, and
possibly execute arbitrary code, via a crafted compressed stream,
a related issue to CVE-2006-1168 and CVE-2011-2896 (CVE-2011-2895).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Affected: 2010.1, 2011., Enterprise Server 5.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2011:153

Risk factor : High

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-1168
BugTraq ID: 19455
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19455
Debian Security Information: DSA-1149 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1149
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-03.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:140
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:129
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141728
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728536
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9373
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0663.html
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2012:0810
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0810.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016836
http://secunia.com/advisories/21427
http://secunia.com/advisories/21434
http://secunia.com/advisories/21437
http://secunia.com/advisories/21467
http://secunia.com/advisories/21880
http://secunia.com/advisories/22036
http://secunia.com/advisories/22296
http://secunia.com/advisories/22377
SGI Security Advisory: 20060901-01-P
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:020 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3234
XForce ISS Database: ncompress-decompress-underflow(28315)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28315
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-2896
1025929
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025929
45621
http://secunia.com/advisories/45621
45900
http://secunia.com/advisories/45900
45945
http://secunia.com/advisories/45945
45948
http://secunia.com/advisories/45948
46024
http://secunia.com/advisories/46024
48236
http://secunia.com/advisories/48236
48308
http://secunia.com/advisories/48308
49148
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49148
50737
http://secunia.com/advisories/50737
DSA-2354
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2354
DSA-2426
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2426
FEDORA-2011-11173
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/064873.html
FEDORA-2011-11197
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/064600.html
FEDORA-2011-11221
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065550.html
FEDORA-2011-11229
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065651.html
FEDORA-2011-11305
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065527.html
FEDORA-2011-11318
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065539.html
GLSA-201209-23
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml
MDVSA-2011:146
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:146
MDVSA-2011:167
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:167
RHSA-2011:1635
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1635.html
RHSA-2012:1180
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1180.html
RHSA-2012:1181
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1181.html
USN-1207-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1207-1
USN-1214-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1214-1
[oss-security] 20110810 LZW decompression issues
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/10/10
http://cups.org/str.php?L3867
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=376ad788c1a1c31d40f18494889c383f6909ebfc
http://www.swi-prolog.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7#c4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727800
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730338
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-2895
1025920
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025920
45544
http://secunia.com/advisories/45544
45568
http://secunia.com/advisories/45568
45599
http://secunia.com/advisories/45599
45986
http://secunia.com/advisories/45986
46127
http://secunia.com/advisories/46127
48951
http://secunia.com/advisories/48951
49124
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49124
APPLE-SA-2012-02-01-1
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
APPLE-SA-2012-05-09-1
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-1
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00000.html
APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-2
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00001.html
APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-3
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00005.html
APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-4
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00002.html
DSA-2293
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2293
MDVSA-2011:153
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:153
NetBSD-SA2011-007
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2011-007.txt.asc
RHSA-2011:1154
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1154.html
RHSA-2011:1155
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1155.html
RHSA-2011:1161
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1161.html
RHSA-2011:1834
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1834.html
SUSE-SU-2011:1035
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-09/msg00019.html
USN-1191-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1191-1
[xorg-announce] 20110810 X.Org security advisory: libXfont LZW decompression heap corruption
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2011-August/001721.html
[xorg-announce] 20110810 [ANNOUNCE] libXfont 1.4.4
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2011-August/001722.html
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=d11ee5886e9d9ec610051a206b135a4cdc1e09a0
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/compress/zopen.c#rev1.17
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725760
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727624
https://support.apple.com/HT205635
https://support.apple.com/HT205637
https://support.apple.com/HT205640
https://support.apple.com/HT205641
openSUSE-SU-2011:1299
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00004.html
xorg-lzw-bo(69141)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69141
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