Re: CVE request: X server crash by client

[cve-assign () mitre org]

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> We got notified that the fix for CVE-2014-8092 introduced the possibility
> of a division by 0 when the "height" for the PutImage call is 0, leading
> to X server abort.
>
> This was already fixed in January in X git.
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc777c346d5d452a53b13b917c45f6a1bad2f20b
>
> As this is a local denial of service, but might be triggerable by images with 0 height
> supplied externally, it might need a CVE.

Use CVE-2015-3418.

> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928520

This currently doesn't seem to be a public bug - we don't know whether
that's intentional.

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