CVE-2008-2362 Information

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the Render extension in the X server 1.4 in X.Org X11R7.3 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a (1) SProcRenderCreateLinearGradient (2) SProcRenderCreateRadialGradient or (3) SProcRenderCreateConicalGradient request with an invalid field specifying the number of bytes to swap in the request data which triggers heap memory corruption.

Reference

ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/xorg/X11R7.3/patches/xorg-xserver-1.4-cve-2008-2362.diff http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=720 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-June/036026.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00005.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0504.html http://secunia.com/advisories/30627 http://secunia.com/advisories/30630 http://secunia.com/advisories/30637 http://secunia.com/advisories/30659 http://secunia.com/advisories/30664 http://secunia.com/advisories/30666 http://secunia.com/advisories/30671 http://secunia.com/advisories/30715 http://secunia.com/advisories/30772 http://secunia.com/advisories/30809 http://secunia.com/advisories/30843 http://secunia.com/advisories/31025 http://secunia.com/advisories/31109 http://secunia.com/advisories/32099 http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-07.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1020245 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238686-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-249.htm http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0201 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1595 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-07.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:116 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:179 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493548/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493550/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29670 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-616-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1803 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1833 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1983/references https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2607 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2619 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11246