USN-1862-1: libxrandr vulnerability
5 June 2013
libxrandr, libxrandr-lts-quantal vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 13.04
- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in libxrandr.
Software Description
- libxrandr - X11 RandR extension library
- libxrandr-lts-quantal - X11 RandR extension library
Details
Ilja van Sprundel discovered multiple security issues in various X.org libraries and components. An attacker could use these issues to cause applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 13.04
- libxrandr2 - 2:1.4.0-1ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 12.10
- libxrandr2 - 2:1.4.0-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- libxrandr-ltsq2 - 2:1.4.0-1~precise2
- libxrandr2 - 2:1.3.2-2ubuntu0.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all all the necessary changes.