RHEL 6 / 7 : libXfont (RHSA-2015:1708)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1708 advisory. The libXfont package provides the X.Org libXfont runtime library. X.Org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. An...

OracleVM 3.3 : libXfont (OVMSA-2015-0120)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - CVE-2015-1802: missing range check in bdfReadProperties bug 1258892 - CVE-2015-1803: crash on invalid read in bdfReadCharacters bug 1258892 - CVE-2015-1804: out-of-bounds memory access in...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libXfont on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20150903)

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way libXfont processed certain Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format BDF fonts. A malicious, local user could use this flaw to crash the X.Org server or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server. CVE-2015-1802 An integer...

RedHat Update for libXfont RHSA-2015:1708-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libXfont security update

An updated libXfont package that fixes three security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

libXfont security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1708 An updated libXfont package that fixes three security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : xorg-x11-libs (SAT Patch Number 10487)

LibXFont was updated to fix security problems that could be used by local attackers to gain X server privileges root. The following security issues have been fixed : - The bdf parser reads a count for the number of properties defined in a font from the font file, and allocates arrays with entries...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxfont (MDVSA-2015:145-1)

Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerabilities : Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled font metadata file parsing. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges CVE-2014-0209. Ilja...

openSUSE Security Update : libXfont (openSUSE-2015-266)

libXFont was updated to fix three vulnerabilities when parsing BDF files bnc921978 As libXfont is used by the X server to read font files, and an unprivileged user with access to the X server can tell the X server to read a given font file from a path of their choosing, these vulnerabilities have...

Fedora 21 : libXfont-1.5.1-1.fc21 (2015-4230)

Security fix for CVE-2015-1802, CVE-2015-1803, CVE-2015-1804 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

Fedora Update for libXfont FEDORA-2015-4230

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Updated libxfont package fixes security vulnerabilities

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...

SUSE-SU-2015:0702-1 Security update for libXfont

LibXFont was updated to fix security problems. 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...

CVE-2015-1804

The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly perform type conversion for metrics values, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds memory access and possibly execute arbitrary co...

CVE-2015-1804

CVE-2015-1804 (libXfont) : The bdfReadCharacters function in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 mishandles type conversion for metrics in BDF fonts. This enables remote authenticated users to trigger a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and potentially execute arbitra...

KLA10478 Denial of service vulnerability in X.Org libXfont

Improper type conversion and bitmaps handling was found in X.Org libXfont. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can execute arbitrary code or cause denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed BDF font file. Original advisories X.Org advisor...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2536-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2015-1804

The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly perform type conversion for metrics values, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds memory access and possibly execute arbitrary co...

[USN-2536-1] libXfont vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2536-1 March 18, 2015 libxfont vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3194-1] libxfont security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3194-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff March 17, 2015 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...