USN-3500-1: libXfont vulnerability

It was discovered that libXfont incorrectly followed symlinks when opening font files. A local unprivileged user could use this issue to cause the X server to access arbitrary files, including special device files...

libXfont: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libXfont is an X11 font rasterisation library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXfont. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could use a specially crafted file to gain privileges, cause a Denia...

libXfont: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libXfont is an X11 font rasterisation library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXfont. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could use a specially crafted file to gain privileges or cause a Denial of Servi...

[USN-1191-1] libXfont vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1191-1 August 15, 2011 libxfont vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...