Input validation error - CVE-2013-2062

 

Input validation error - CVE-2013-2062

Published: June 15, 2013 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33892
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2062
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Multiple integer overflows in X.org libXp 1.0.1 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to the (1) XpGetAttributes, (2) XpGetOneAttribute, (3) XpGetPrinterList, and (4) XpQueryScreens functions.


Affected software

Amazon Linux AMI
HP-UX
libxp (Alpine package)
libxrandr (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-2062

Install update from vendor's website.

libxp (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 1.0.1-r2, 1.0.1-r3
libxrandr (Alpine package) - update to 1.3.2-r1

External References

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