USN-2536-1: libXfont vulnerabilities

Ilja van Sprundel, Alan Coopersmith, and William Robinet discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled malformed bdf fonts. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges...

libXfont multiple security vulnerabilities

Memory corruptions on bdf parsing...

[USN-2536-1] libXfont vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2536-1 March 18, 2015 libxfont vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

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...

Debian DSA-3194-1 : 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. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

FreeBSD : libXfont -- BDF parsing issues (f7d79fac-cd49-11e4-898f-bcaec565249c)

Alan Coopersmith reports : Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered an issue in the parsing of BDF font files by libXfont. Additional testing by Alan Coopersmith and William Robinet with the American Fuzzy Lop afl tool uncovered two more issues in the parsing of BDF...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3194-1] libxfont security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3194-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff March 17, 2015 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3194-1 (libxfont - security update)

Ilja van Sprundel, Alan Coopersmith and William Robinet discovered multiple issues in libxfont OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3194.nasl 6609 2017-07-07 12:05:59Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3194-1 using nvtgen 1.0 Script version: 1.0 Author: Greenbone Networks Copyright:...

libxfont: multiple issues

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 the potential to allow unprivileged users to run code with the privileges of the X...

DSA-3194-1 libxfont - security update

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libXfont -- BDF parsing issues

Alan Coopersmith reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered an issue in the parsing of BDF font files by libXfont. Additional testing by Alan Coopersmith and William Robinet with the American Fuzzy Lop afl tool uncovered two more issues in the parsing of BDF...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3194-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 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...

SOL16118 - libXfont vulnerabilities CVE-2014-0209, CVE-2014-0210 and CVE-2014-0211

Recommended Action If the previous table lists a version in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to the listed version. If the listed version is older than the version you are currently running, or if the table does not list any version...

Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : xorg (multiple_vulnerabilities_in_x_org2)

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates : - Multiple integer overflows in the 1 FontFileAddEntry and 2 lexAlias functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 might allow local users to gain privileges by adding a directory with a...

CentOS 5 : libXfont (CESA-2014:1893)

Updated libXfont packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available...

OracleVM 3.3 : libXfont (OVMSA-2014-0080)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - CVE-2014-0209: integer overflow of allocations in font metadata file parsing bug 1163602, bug 1163601 - CVE-2014-0210: unvalidated length fields when parsing xfs protocol replies bug 1163602, bug...

Oracle Linux 5 : libXfont (ELSA-2014-1893)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1893 advisory. - CVE-2014-0209: integer overflow of allocations in font metadata file parsing bug 1163602, bug 1163601 - CVE-2014-0210: unvalidated length fields when...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libXfont on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20141124)

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way libXfont processed certain font files when attempting to add a new directory to the font path. A malicious, local user could exploit this issue to potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server. CVE-2014-0209 Multiple...

RHEL 5 : libXfont (RHSA-2014:1893)

Updated libXfont packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available...