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mesa: code execution

Package(s):mesa CVE #(s):CVE-2013-1872
Created:June 4, 2013 Updated:July 17, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in Mesa. If an application using Mesa exposed the Mesa API to untrusted inputs (Mozilla Firefox does this), an attacker could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0897-01 2013-06-03
Scientific Linux SL-mesa-20130603 2013-06-03
CentOS CESA-2013:0897 2013-06-03
Oracle ELSA-2013-0897 2013-06-03
Debian DSA-2704-1 2013-06-09
Ubuntu USN-1888-1 2013-06-20
Mageia MGASA-2013-0186 2013-06-26
Mageia MGASA-2013-0190 2013-06-26
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:182 2013-06-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:1188-1 2013-07-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2013:1175-1 2013-07-11

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