CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.5%
The remote host is missing an update for the
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.881860");
script_version("2023-07-11T05:06:07+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-11 05:06:07 +0000 (Tue, 11 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2014-01-13 11:40:38 +0530 (Mon, 13 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("CentOS Update for libXfont CESA-2014:0018 centos5");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"libXfont on CentOS 5");
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:"CESA", value:"2014:0018");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020103.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("CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/centos", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=CentOS5");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
if(release == "CentOS5")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libXfont", rpm:"libXfont~1.2.2~1.0.5.el5_10", rls:"CentOS5")) != 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:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
exit(0);
}