7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.459 Medium
EPSS
Percentile
97.4%
The X.Org Foundation provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The X server of this implementation contains a vulnerability in the handling of Portable Compiled Font (PCF) format fonts that can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
An attacker with an established, authenticated connection to the X server could execute arbitrary code with the privilege of X server process or cause the server to crash.
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