RedHat Update for libXfont RHSA-2014:0018-01
🗓️ 21 Jan 2014 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AGType
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| 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 |
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| Source | Link |
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| redhat | www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2014-January/msg00006.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.871112");
script_version("2024-03-21T05:06:54+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-03-21 05:06:54 +0000 (Thu, 21 Mar 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2014-01-21 13:42:52 +0530 (Tue, 21 Jan 2014)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-6462");
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("RedHat Update for libXfont RHSA-2014:0018-01");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"libXfont on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server),
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6),
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6),
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The libXfont packages provide the X.Org libXfont runtime library. X.Org is
an open source implementation of the X Window System.
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)
Users of libXfont should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
a backported patch to resolve this issue. All running X.Org server
instances must be restarted for the update to take effect.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please Install the Updated Packages.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2014:0018-01");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2014-January/msg00006.html");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'libXfont'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/rhel", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=RHENT_(6|5)");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release) exit(0);
res = "";
if(release == "RHENT_6")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont", rpm:"libXfont~1.4.5~3.el6_5", rls:"RHENT_6")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont-debuginfo", rpm:"libXfont-debuginfo~1.4.5~3.el6_5", rls:"RHENT_6")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
exit(0);
}
if(release == "RHENT_5")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont", rpm:"libXfont~1.2.2~1.0.5.el5_10", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont-debuginfo", rpm:"libXfont-debuginfo~1.2.2~1.0.5.el5_10", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont-devel", rpm:"libXfont-devel~1.2.2~1.0.5.el5_10", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
exit(0);
}
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CVSS 29.3
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