MGASA-2015-0113 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: libXfont-1.5.1-1.fc21

X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library...

X.Org libXfont bitmap/bdfread.c Null Pointer Reference Denial of Service Vulnerability

X.Org is an official reference implementation of the X Window System operated by the X.Org Foundation and is open source free software. libXfont is an X font handling library for servers and utilities. A security vulnerability in the 'bdfReadCharacters' function in the bitmap/bdfread.c file in...

X.Org libXfont bitmap/bdfread.c Denial of Service Vulnerability

X.Org is an official reference implementation of the X Window System operated by the X.Org Foundation and is open source free software. libXfont is an X font handling library for servers and utilities. A security vulnerability in the 'bdfReadCharacters' function in the bitmap/bdfread.c file in...

Fedora 22 : libXfont-1.5.1-1.fc22 (2015-4199)

libXfont 1.5.1 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...

X.Org libXfont bitmap/bdfread.c out-of-bounds write denial of service vulnerability

X.Org is an official reference implementation of the X Window System operated by the X.Org Foundation and is open source free software. libXfont is an X font handling library for servers and utilities. A security vulnerability exists in the 'bdfReadProperties' function in the bitmap/bdfread.c fil...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: libXfont-1.5.1-1.fc22

X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library...

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-2015-1803

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 handle character bitmaps it cannot read, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash and possibly execute arbitrar...

CVE-2015-1803

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 handle character bitmaps it cannot read, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash and possibly execute arbitrar...

CVE-2015-1802

The bdfReadProperties function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a 1 negative or 2 large property count in a BDF font file...

CVE-2015-1802

The bdfReadProperties function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a 1 negative or 2 large property count in a BDF font file...

Null pointer dereference

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 handle character bitmaps it cannot read, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash and possibly execute arbitrar...

Out-of-bounds

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...

Out-of-bounds

The bdfReadProperties function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a 1 negative or 2 large property count in a BDF font file...

CVE-2015-1802

The bdfReadProperties function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a 1 negative or 2 large property count in a BDF font file...

CVE-2015-1803

CVE-2015-1803 affects the X.Org libXfont library. The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c does not properly handle unreadable character bitmaps, allowing remote authenticated users to trigger a denial of service via NULL pointer dereference and crash, with the potential to execute arbi...

CVE-2015-1803

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 handle character bitmaps it cannot read, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash and possibly execute arbitrar...

CVE-2015-1803

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 handle character bitmaps it cannot read, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash and possibly execute arbitrar...