Product
Solaris 10 Operating System

Bug Id
6416841

Date of Workaround Release
04-MAY-2006

Date of Resolved Release
17-MAY-2006

Impact

The Xorg X server (see Xorg(1)) is one of the X Window System display servers available on the Solaris x86 platform. A buffer overflow in the X Render extension may allow an unprivileged local or remote user who is a client of the Xorg X server the ability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Xorg server. The Xorg X server runs with root privileges on Solaris.

This issue is described in the following documents:

• CVE-2006-1526 at: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1526
• http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-May/015136.html

Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following release:

x86 Platform

• Solaris 10 without patch 118966-20

Note: Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 are not affected by this issue. Solaris 10 on the SPARC platform is also not affected.

The described issue only occurs on systems with the SUNWxorg packages installed. To determine if the SUNWxorg packages are installed on the system, the following command can be used:

    pkginfo SUNWxorg-server

 

Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms that would show the described issue has been exploited.

Workaround

To work around the described issue, disable the Render extension by putting the following in the xorg.conf(4) file:

    Section "Extensions"
Option "RENDER" "disable"
    EndSection

Note: After applying this workaround, applications requiring the Render extension may not run.

Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following release:

x86 Platform

• Solaris 10 with patch 118966-20 or later

Modification History
Date: 17-MAY-2006

• State: Resolved
• Updated Contributing Factors, Relief/Workaround, and Resolution sections

References

118966-20




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