Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.871004
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Update for mesa RHSA-2013:0898-01
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'mesa'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'mesa' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Mesa provides a 3D graphics API that is compatible with Open Graphics Library (OpenGL). It also provides hardware-accelerated drivers for many popular graphics chips. It was found that Mesa did not correctly validate messages from the X server. A malicious X server could cause an application using Mesa to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-1993) All users of Mesa are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications linked against Mesa must be restarted for this update to take effect. Affected Software/OS: mesa on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) Solution: Please Install the Updated Packages. 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-2013-1993 DSA-2678 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2678 MDVSA-2013:181 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:181 RHSA-2013:0897 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0897.html RHSA-2013:0898 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0898.html USN-1888-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1888-1 [Mesa-dev] 20130523 [PATCH:mesa 1/2] integer overflow in XF86DRIOpenConnection() [CVE-2013-1993 1/2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-May/039720.html [Mesa-dev] 20130523 [PATCH:mesa 2/2] integer overflow in XF86DRIGetClientDriverName() [CVE-2013-1993 2/2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-May/039722.html [oss-security] 20130523 Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] X.Org Security Advisory: Protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/23/3 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0190.html http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23 openSUSE-SU-2013:0865 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00007.html
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