File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.5068
<patchinfo incident="5068">
<issue id="1035283" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: xorg-x11-server: various overflows in event processor</issue>
<issue id="2017-10971" tracker="cve">stack overflow in swapevents</issue>
<issue id="2017-10972" tracker="cve">info leak in swapevents</issue>
<category>security</category>
<rating>important</rating>
<packager>michalsrb</packager>
<description>This update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fixes:
- CVE-2017-10971: Fix endianess handling of GenericEvent to prevent a stack overflow by clients. (bnc#1035283)
- Make sure the type of all events to be sent by ProcXSendExtensionEvent are in the
allowed range.
- CVE-2017-10972: Initialize the xEvent eventT with zeros to avoid information leakage.
</description>
<summary>Security update for xorg-x11-server</summary>
<relogin_needed/>
</patchinfo>