Hummingbird Exceed X buffer overflow

Buffer overflow on oversized font name...

Exceed 5.06.06.17.18.0 - Font Name Handler Buffer Overflow

Exceed 5.06.06.17.18.0 - Font Name Handler Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8194/info The Exceed server and client have been reported prone to a remotely triggered buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker may trigger this vulnerability by sending excessive data as a...

Exceed 5.0/6.0/6.1/7.1/8.0 - Font Name Handler Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8194/info The Exceed server and client have been reported prone to a remotely triggered buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker may trigger this vulnerability by sending excessive data as a font name to the server via a malicios XLoadQueryFont...

Updated KDE packages available

New KDE 3.1.1a packages are available for Slackware 9.0 which fix a security problem with the handling of PS and PDF documents. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Thu Apr 17 15:32:15 PDT 2003 patches/packages/kde/: Upgraded to KDE 3.1.1a. Also included in this directory are a...

HP-UX 7-11 - X Font Server Local Buffer Overflow

HP-UX 7-11 - X Font Server Local Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10551/info HP-UX X Font Server is reportedly affected by a local buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly validate the length of a user-supplied string...

HP-UX 7-11 - X Font Server Local Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10551/info HP-UX X Font Server is reportedly affected by a local buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly validate the length of a user-supplied string before copying it into a finite buffer. This issue...

PT-2003-1119 · Xfree86 +1 · Xterm +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: XFree86-xf86cfg versions 4.1.0 through 4.2.1 XFree86-font-utils versions 4.1.0 through 4.2.1-21 XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts versions 4.1.0 through 4.2.1-21 XFree86-tools versions 4.1.0 through 4.2.1-21 XFree86-devel versions 4.1.0 through...

Microsoft Windows XP/2000 - Fontview Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6536/info Microsoft Windows is vulnerable to a denial of service condition when attempting to view certain OpenType fonts .otf. When a malformed font file is viewed with the default Windows font viewer, it will cause the system to Blue Screen and reboot...

Microsoft Windows XP2000 - Fontview Denial of Service

Microsoft Windows XP2000 - Fontview Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6536/info Microsoft Windows is vulnerable to a denial of service condition when attempting to view certain OpenType fonts .otf. When a malformed font file is viewed with the default Windows font viewer...

CVE-2002-1705

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a Cascading Style Sheet CSS with the pcssText element declared and a bold font weight...

CVE-2002-1317

Buffer overflow in Dispatch routine for XFS font server fs.auto on Solaris 2.5.1 through 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or execute arbitrary code via a certain XFS query...

X Font Service Crafted XFS Query Remote Overflow

The remote X Font Service xfs is affected by a buffer overflow. An attacker may use this flaw to gain shell access on the remote host as 'root' or 'nobody'. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. It turns out the initial revision of this script would not crash all versions of the font service...

Sun X Window Font Service buffer overflow

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ISS Security Brief: Solaris fs.auto Remote Compromise Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ISS X-Force Security Brief November 25, 2002 Solaris fs.auto Remote Compromise Vulnerability Synopsis: ISS X-Force has discovered a vulnerability in the Sun Microsystems implementation of the "X Window Font Service", or "XFS". The XFS service was designed as a...

XFree86 X11R6 3.3.x - Font Server Remote Buffer Overrun

XFree86 X11R6 3.3.x - Font Server Remote Buffer Overrun source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6241/info A remotely exploitable buffer overrun condition has been reported in the XFS font server, fs.auto used by multiple vendors. This vulnerability may be exploited by remote attackers to execut...

XFree86 X11R6 3.3.x - Font Server Remote Buffer Overrun

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6241/info A remotely exploitable buffer overrun condition has been reported in the XFS font server, fs.auto used by multiple vendors. This vulnerability may be exploited by remote attackers to execute commands on the target host with privileges of user...

Xoops 1.3.5 - Private Message System Font Attributes HTML Injection

Xoops 1.3.5 - Private Message System Font Attributes HTML Injection source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6344/info Xoops includes a Private Message System for users, so that they may send messages to one another. HTML tags used for font attributes are not sufficiently filtered of malicious...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: tetex security update

Updated packages for dvips are available which fix a vulnerability allowing print users to execute arbitrary commands. Updated 13 Aug 2003 Added tetex-doc package that was originally left out of the errata. The dvips utility converts DVI format into PostScriptTM, and is used in Red Hat Linux as a...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5/6 - CSSText Bold Font Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5027/info A problem with Microsoft Internet Explorer may make it possible to deny service to users of the browser. The problem is in the handling of certain types of stylesheet input. It may be possible to crash IE. When IE encounters a style sheet with t...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 56 - CSSText Bold Font Denial of Service

Microsoft Internet Explorer 56 - CSSText Bold Font Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5027/info A problem with Microsoft Internet Explorer may make it possible to deny service to users of the browser. The problem is in the handling of certain types of stylesheet input. It...