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USN-1888-1: Mesa vulnerabilities

20 June 2013

Mesa could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted input.

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Details

It was discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled certain memory
calculations. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application to
crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-1872)

Ilja van Sprundel discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled certain memory
calculations. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application to
crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-1993)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.