Microsoft DirectWrite AFDKO - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in OpenType Font Handling in readCharset

Microsoft DirectWrite AFDKO - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in OpenType Font Handling in readCharset -----===== Background =====----- AFDKO Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType is a set of tools for examining, modifying and building fonts. The core part of this toolset is a font handling library...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200609-07 (libxfont)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200609-07. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : libxfont, xorg vulnerabilities (USN-344-1)

iDefense security researchers found several integer overflows in X.org's font handling library. By using a specially crafted Type1 CID font file, a local user could exploit these to crash the X server or execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted...

Fedora Core 5 : libXfont-1.2.8-1.fc5 (2007-422)

Fri Apr 6 2007 Adam Jackson 1.2.8-1 - libXfont 1.2.8. - Wed Jan 17 2007 Kristian Hagsberg 1.2.6-2 - Add built-in-scalable.patch to prevent crash when trying to scale built-in bitmap fonts. - Fri Jan 5 2007 Adam Jackson 1.2.6-1 - Update to 1.2.6 - Fri Dec 1 2006 Adam Jackson 1.2.5-1 - Update to...

Fedora Core 6 : libXfont-1.2.8-1.fc6 (2007-423)

Fri Apr 6 2007 Adam Jackson 1.2.8-1 - libXfont 1.2.8. - Wed Jan 17 2007 Kristian Hagsberg 1.2.6-2 - Add built-in-scalable.patch to prevent crash when trying to scale built-in bitmap fonts. - Fri Jan 5 2007 Adam Jackson 1.2.6-1 - Update to 1.2.6 - Fri Dec 1 2006 Adam Jackson 1.2.5-1 - Update to...

Important: XFree86 security update

4.3.0-115.EL.0.2 - Change Patch - needs to be -p0 not -p1 4.3.0-115.EL.0.1 - Add oracle detection to Imake. 4.3.0-115.EL - Add xorg-x11-6.8.2-sorted-xkbcomp-dirs.patch to fix rpmdiff multilib failure. 4.3.0-114.EL - Add xorg-x11-server-CVE-2006-6101.patch 218870 4.3.0-113.EL - Fix for CID font...

Important xorg-x11 security update

6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2.1 - Add oracle detection to Imake and xprint 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 - Fix for CID font parser integer overflows. CVE-2006-3470, 204548 - Remove withalternateprojectroot macros...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : XFree86 (RHSA-2006:0666)

Updated XFree86 packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System, which provides the core...

USN-344-1: X.org vulnerabilities

iDefense security researchers found several integer overflows in X.org's font handling library. By using a specially crafted Type1 CID font file, a local user could exploit these to crash the X server or execute arbitrary code with root privileges...

XFree86 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0666 Updated XFree86 packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. XFree86 is an implementation of the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: XFree86 security update

Updated XFree86 packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System, which provides the core...