USN-2436-1

Ilja van Sprundel discovered a multitude of security issues in the X.Org X server. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use these issues to cause the X server to crash or execute arbitrary code resulting in possible privilege escalation.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / xorg-server

Package

Name: xorg-server
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/xorg-server@2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4

Affected versions

2:1.*

2:1.14.3-3ubuntu2

2:1.14.3-3ubuntu3

2:1.14.3-3ubuntu4

2:1.14.3-5ubuntu1

2:1.14.4-1ubuntu1

2:1.14.4-1ubuntu2

2:1.14.4.901-0ubuntu2

2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2

2:1.14.5-1ubuntu4

2:1.15.0-1ubuntu1

2:1.15.0-1ubuntu2

2:1.15.0-1ubuntu3

2:1.15.0-1ubuntu4

2:1.15.0-1ubuntu6

2:1.15.0-1ubuntu7

2:1.15.1-0ubuntu1

2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2

2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "xdmx",
            "binary_version": "2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xdmx-tools",
            "binary_version": "2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xnest",
            "binary_version": "2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xorg-server-source",
            "binary_version": "2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xserver-common",
            "binary_version": "2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xserver-xephyr",
            "binary_version": "2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xserver-xorg-core",
            "binary_version": "2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xserver-xorg-dev",
            "binary_version": "2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xserver-xorg-xmir",
            "binary_version": "2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xvfb",
            "binary_version": "2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8091",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8092",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8093",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8094",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8095",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8096",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8097",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8098",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8099",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8100",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8101",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8102",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-8103",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}