CVE-2007-4730

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2007-09-09
Bugzilla:
285991: CVE-2007-4730 X.org composite extension buffer overflow

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer overflow in the compNewPixmap function in compalloc.c in the Composite extension for the X.org X11 server before 1.4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by copying data from a large pixel depth pixmap into a smaller pixel depth pixmap.

Find out more about CVE-2007-4730 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This flaw was fixed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in RHSA-2007-0898:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0898.html

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not affected by this flaw. More information can be found here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=285991

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3 do not support the composite extension and are not vulnerable to this flaw.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (xorg-x11) RHSA-2007:0898 2007-09-19

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