| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 92 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| libXfont -- Stack buffer overflow in parsing of BDF font files in libXfont | 24 Dec 201300:00 | – | freebsd | |
| Important: libXfont | 3 Feb 201400:00 | – | amazon | |
| Amazon Linux AMI : libXfont (ALAS-2014-282) | 5 Feb 201400:00 | – | nessus | |
| CentOS 5 / 6 : libXfont (CESA-2014:0018) | 12 Jan 201400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian DSA-2838-1 : libxfont - buffer overflow | 8 Jan 201400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 20 : libXfont-1.4.7-1.fc20 (2014-0443) | 13 Jan 201400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 19 : libXfont-1.4.5-5.fc19 (2014-0467) | 29 Jan 201400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 21 : nx-libs-3.5.0.29-1.fc21 (2015-3948) | 27 Mar 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 22 : nx-libs-3.5.0.29-1.fc22 (2015-3953) | 23 Mar 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 20 : nx-libs-3.5.0.29-1.fc20 (2015-3964) | 27 Mar 201500:00 | – | nessus |
| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| alas | www.alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-282.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120003");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-6462");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-09-08 11:14:42 +0000 (Tue, 08 Sep 2015)");
script_version("2025-01-23T05:37:38+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-01-23 05:37:38 +0000 (Thu, 23 Jan 2025)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2014-282)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/amazon_linux", "ssh/login/release");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"ALAS-2014-282");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-282.html");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'libXfont' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2014-282 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the libXfont library parsed Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) fonts. A malicious, local user could exploit this issue to potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server. (CVE-2013-6462)");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'libXfont' package(s) on Amazon Linux.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "AMAZON") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont", rpm:"libXfont~1.4.5~3.8.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont-debuginfo", rpm:"libXfont-debuginfo~1.4.5~3.8.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont-devel", rpm:"libXfont-devel~1.4.5~3.8.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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