Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxfont (MDVSA-2015:145-1)

Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerabilities : Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled font metadata file parsing. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges CVE-2014-0209. Ilja...

openSUSE Security Update : libXfont (openSUSE-2015-266)

libXFont was updated to fix three vulnerabilities when parsing BDF files bnc921978 As libXfont is used by the X server to read font files, and an unprivileged user with access to the X server can tell the X server to read a given font file from a path of their choosing, these vulnerabilities have...

Debian DLA-183-1 : libxfont security update

Ilja van Sprundel, Alan Coopersmith and William Robinet discovered multiple issues in libxfont's code to process BDF fonts, which might result in privilege escalation. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has...

[SECURITY] [DLA 183-1] libxfont security update

Package : libxfont Version : 1:1.4.1-5+deb6u1 CVE ID : CVE-2015-1802 CVE-2015-1803 CVE-2015-1804 Ilja van Sprundel, Alan Coopersmith and William Robinet discovered multiple issues in libxfonts code to process BDF fonts, which might result in privilege escalation...

DLA-183-1 libxfont - security update

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openSUSE: Security Advisory for libXfont (openSUSE-SU-2015:0614-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Security update for libXfont (important)

libXFont was updated to fix three vulnerabilities when parsing BDF files bnc921978 As libXfont is used by the X server to read font files, and an unprivileged user with access to the X server can tell the X server to read a given font file from a path of their choosing, these vulnerabilities have...

Fedora 21 : libXfont-1.5.1-1.fc21 (2015-4230)

Security fix for 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...

Fedora Update for libXfont FEDORA-2015-4230

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

GLSA-201406-11 : libXfont: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201406-11 libXfont: Multiple vulnerabilities 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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 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...