Debian DSA-607-1 : xfree86 - several vulnerabilities

Several developers have discovered a number of problems in the libXpm library which is provided by X.Org, XFree86 and LessTif. These bugs can be exploited by remote and/or local attackers to gain access to the system or to escalate their local privileges, by using a specially crafted XPM image...

XFree86 vulnerable to buffer overflow via crafted font directory in 'fonts.alias' file

Overview XFree86 contains a vulnerability in the parsing of the 'fonts.alias' file, which could be exploited by a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Description XFree86 contains a flaw during the processing of the 'fonts.alias' file. XFree86 is an implementation of the...

XFree86 vulnerable to buffer overflow via error in 'ReadFontAlias()' function

Overview XFree86 contains a vulnerability in the parsing of the 'fonts.alias' file, which could be exploited by a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Description XFree86 contains a flaw during the processing of the 'fonts.alias' file. XFree86 is an implementation of the...

X.Org, XFree86: libXpm vulnerabilities

Background libXpm is a pixmap manipulation library for the X Window System, included in both X.Org and XFree86. Description Several issues were discovered in libXpm, including integer overflows, out-of-bounds memory accesses, insecure path traversal and an endless loop. Impact An attacker could...

USN-27-1: libxpm4 vulnerability

Chris Evans discovered several stack overflows in the versions of libXpm shipped by X.Org, XFree86, and LessTif. These overflows were fixed in the Warty development tree before its release. Mathieu Herrb of OpenBSD subsequently discovered that the original patch was insufficient to address these...

XFree86 4.3 - Font Information File Buffer Overflow

XFree86 4.3 - Font Information File Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9636/info It has been reported that the XFree86 X Windows system is prone to a local buffer overflow vulnerability. The issue arises from improper bounds checking when parsing the 'font.alias' file...

Debian DSA-561-1 : xfree86 - integer and stack overflows

Chris Evans discovered several stack and integer overflows in the libXpm library which is provided by X.Org, XFree86 and LessTif. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-561. The...

XFree86 4.3 - Font Information File Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9636/info It has been reported that the XFree86 X Windows system is prone to a local buffer overflow vulnerability. The issue arises from improper bounds checking when parsing the 'font.alias' file. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an...

RHEL 2.1 : XFree86 (RHSA-2004:479)

Updated XFree86 packages that fix several security issues in libXpm, as well as other bug fixes, are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. XFree86 is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low level functionality which full fledged graphical user...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: XFree86 security update

Updated XFree86 packages that fix several security issues in libXpm, as well as other bug fixes, are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. XFree86 is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low level functionality which full fledged graphical user...

RHEL 3 : XFree86 (RHSA-2004:478)

Updated XFree86 packages that fix several security flaws in libXpm, as well as other bugs, are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. XFree86 is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low level functionality which full fledged graphical user interfaces...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: XFree86 security update

Updated XFree86 packages that fix several security flaws in libXpm, as well as other bugs, are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. XFree86 is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low level functionality which full fledged graphical user interfaces...

security flaw

XDM in XFree86 opens a chooserFd TCP socket even when DisplayManager.requestPort is 0, which could allow remote attackers to connect to the port, in violation of the intended restrictions...

Debian DSA-030-2 : xfree86

"Chris Evans, Joseph S. Myers, Michal Zalewski, Alan Cox, and others have noted a number of problems in several components of the X Window System sample implementation from which XFree86 is derived. While there are no known reports of real-world malicious exploits of any of these problems, it is...

Debian DSA-443-1 : xfree86 - several vulnerabilities

A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in XFree86. The corrections are listed below with the identification from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE project : - CAN-2004-0083 : Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and...

Debian DSA-380-1 : xfree86 - buffer overflows, denial of service

use wml::fmt::verbatim Four vulnerabilities have been discovered in XFree86. - CAN-2003-0063- xterm window title reporting escape sequence can deceive user The xterm package provides a terminal escape sequence that reports the window title by injecting it into the input buffer of the terminal...

SUSE-SA:2004:034: XFree86-libs, xshared

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2004:034 XFree86-libs, xshared. Chris Evans reported three vulnerabilities in libXpm which can be exploited remotely by providing malformed XPM image files. The function xpmParseColors is vulnerable to an integer overflow and a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : XFree86 (MDKSA-2004:099)

Chris Evans found several stack and integer overflows in the libXpm code of X.Org/XFree86 : Stack overflows CVE-2004-0687 : Careless use of strcat in both the XPMv1 and XPMv2/3 xpmParseColors code leads to a stack based overflow parse.c. Stack overflow reading pixel values in ParseAndPutPixels...

CVE-2003-0063

The xterm terminal emulator in XFree86 4.2.0 and earlier allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape sequence and then insert it back to the command line in the user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence, which could allow the...

CVE-2004-0094

Integer signedness errors in XFree86 4.1.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code when using the GLX extension and Direct Rendering Infrastructure DRI...