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
Sean Larsson discovered that two code paths inside the X Font Server
handle integer values insecurely, which may lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge5 of xfree86. Packages for m68k are not
yet available. They will be provided later.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-7.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xfs packages.