CVE-2013-6462

Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file...

CVE-2013-6462

Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file...

23-year-old Stack overflow vulnerability discovered in X11 Server

X.Org Foundation develops the X-Window System, the standard window system for open source operating systems and devices. Most of the graphical user interfaces for Unix and Linux systems rely on it. At the 30th Chaos Communication Congress CCC in Germany, Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher...

FreeBSD : libXfont -- Stack buffer overflow in parsing of BDF font files in libXfont (28c575fa-784e-11e3-8249-001cc0380077)

freedesktop.org reports : A BDF font file containing a longer than expected string can cause a buffer overflow on the stack. Testing in X servers built with Stack Protector restulted in an immediate crash when reading a user-proveded specially crafted font. As libXfont is used to read...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : libxfont vulnerability (USN-2078-1)

It was discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled certain malformed BDF fonts. An attacker could use a specially crafted font file to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the...

libXfont memory corruption

Memory corruption on BDF font parsing...

[USN-2078-1] libXfont vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2078-1 January 07, 2014 libxfont vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

Debian DSA-2838-1 : libxfont - buffer overflow

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the processing of Glyph Bitmap Distribution fonts BDF could result in the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Adviso...

USN-2078-1: libXfont vulnerability

It was discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled certain malformed BDF fonts. An attacker could use a specially crafted font file to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2838-1] libxfont security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2838-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 07, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-2838-1 libxfont - buffer overflow

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2838-1 (libxfont - buffer overflow)

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the processing of Glyph Bitmap Distribution fonts BDF could result in the execution of arbitrary code. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2838.nasl 6715 2017-07-13 09:57:40Z teissa $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2838-1 using nvtgen 1.0 Script versio...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2838-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

libXfont -- Stack buffer overflow in parsing of BDF font files in libXfont

freedesktop.org reports: A BDF font file containing a longer than expected string can cause a buffer overflow on the stack. Testing in X servers built with Stack Protector restulted in an immediate crash when reading a user-proveded specially crafted font. As libXfont is used to read user-specifi...

libXfont memory corruption

Memory corruption on compressed font parsing...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : libXfont (ELSA-2011-1154)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-1154 advisory. 1.4.1-2 - cve-2011-2895.patch: LZW decompression heap corruption Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux securi...

Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / libXfont (ELSA-2007-0132)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0132 advisory. 1.2.2-1.0.2.el5 - Rebuild because of forgotten changelog entry. 1.2.2-1.0.1.el5 - Fix for bug 234058, cve-2207-1351/1352 Tenable has extracted the...

Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / libXfont (ELSA-2008-0064)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0064 advisory. 1.2.2-1.0.3 - cve-2008-0006.patch: XFS Integer Overflow Vulnerability Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux...

RHEL 5 : libXfont (RHSA-2011:1834)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1834 advisory. - BSD compress LZW decoder buffer overflow CVE-2011-2895 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xorg-x11 on SL4.x i386/x86_64

X.Org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon. These xorg-x11 packages also provide the X.Org libXfont runtime library. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the...