SUSE: Security Advisory for libXfont (SUSE-SU-2015:0702-1)
🗓️ 15 Oct 2015 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AGType
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# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.850864");
script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-10-15 12:24:06 +0200 (Thu, 15 Oct 2015)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-1802", "CVE-2015-1803", "CVE-2015-1804");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"8.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_name("SUSE: Security Advisory for libXfont (SUSE-SU-2015:0702-1)");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'libXfont'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"LibXFont was updated to fix security problems.
The following security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2015-1802: The bdf parser reads a count for the number of properties
defined in a font from the font file, and allocates arrays with entries
for each property based on that count. It never checked to see if that
count was negative, or large enough to overflow when multiplied by the
size
of the structures being allocated, and could thus allocate the wrong
buffer size, leading to out of bounds writes.
- CVE-2015-1803: If the bdf parser failed to parse the data for the bitmap
for any character, it would proceed with an invalid pointer to the
bitmap data and later crash when trying to read the bitmap from that
pointer.
- CVE-2015-1804: The bdf parser read metrics values as 32-bit integers,
but stored them into 16-bit integers. Overflows could occur in various
operations leading to out-of-bounds memory access.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"libXfont on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_xref(name:"SUSE-SU", value:"2015:0702-1");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG");
script_family("SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/suse", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=SLED12\.0SP0");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "SLED12.0SP0") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont-debugsource", rpm:"libXfont-debugsource~1.4.7~4.1", rls:"SLED12.0SP0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont1", rpm:"libXfont1~1.4.7~4.1", rls:"SLED12.0SP0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont1-debuginfo", rpm:"libXfont1-debuginfo~1.4.7~4.1", rls:"SLED12.0SP0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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24 Apr 2026 00:00Current
5.6Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.6
CVSS 28.5
EPSS0.04963