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X Window 4.0/4.1/4.2 - System Oversized Font Denial of Service

🗓️ 10 Jun 2002 00:00:00Reported by Tom VogtType 
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X Window System denial of service due to oversized font size can be exploited remotely.

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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4966/info

X Window System behaves unpredictably when handling an overly large font size. If an attacker can pass an overly large font size to X Window System, it is possible to cause a denial of service condition.

Remote exploitation of this issue is possible via web clients or other applications which do not check that the font size is sane before passing it to the X Window System. This is reported to be a problem with xfs (X Font Server) and the libXfont component.

This is reported to affect various X Window System implementations, including XFree86.

Include a huge font size in your style sheet definition, e.g.:
body { font-size: 1666666px; } 

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