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libXfont security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0018 Updated libXfont packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...
Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libXfont security update
Updated libXfont packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating...
libXfont: stack-based buffer overflow flaw when parsing Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) fonts
Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file...
libxfont security update
1.4.5-3 - cve-2013-6462.patch: sscanf overflow bug 1049684 - sscanf-hardening.patch: Some other sscanf hardening fixes 1049684...
Ubuntu Update for libxfont USN-2078-1
Check for the Version of libxfont OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN20781.nasl 7957 2017-12-01 06:40:08Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for libxfont USN-2078-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free...
Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2078-1)
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CVE-2013-6462
Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file...
DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6462
Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file...
CVE-2013-6462
Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file...
CVE-2013-6462
CVE-2013-6462 : A stack-based buffer overflow exists in libXfont (X.Org) 1.1–1.4.6, in the bdfReadCharacters function (bitmap/bdfread.c) when parsing Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) fonts. A long string in a BDF font’s character name can cause a crash or potentially allow remote arbitrary ...
CVE-2013-6462
Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file...
CVE-2013-6462
Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file...
23-year-old Stack overflow vulnerability discovered in X11 Server
X.Org Foundation develops the X-Window System, the standard window system for open source operating systems and devices. Most of the graphical user interfaces for Unix and Linux systems rely on it. At the 30th Chaos Communication Congress CCC in Germany, Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher...
FreeBSD : libXfont -- Stack buffer overflow in parsing of BDF font files in libXfont (28c575fa-784e-11e3-8249-001cc0380077)
freedesktop.org reports : A BDF font file containing a longer than expected string can cause a buffer overflow on the stack. Testing in X servers built with Stack Protector restulted in an immediate crash when reading a user-proveded specially crafted font. As libXfont is used to read...
[USN-2078-1] libXfont vulnerability
========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2078-1 January 07, 2014 libxfont vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...
libXfont memory corruption
Memory corruption on BDF font parsing...
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : libxfont vulnerability (USN-2078-1)
It was discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled certain malformed BDF fonts. An attacker could use a specially crafted font file to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the...
Debian DSA-2838-1 : libxfont - buffer overflow
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the processing of Glyph Bitmap Distribution fonts BDF could result in the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Adviso...
USN-2078-1: libXfont vulnerability
It was discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled certain malformed BDF fonts. An attacker could use a specially crafted font file to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the...
[SECURITY] [DSA 2838-1] libxfont security update
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2838-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 07, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...