LibXfont, LibXfont2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background X.Org Xfont library Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibXfont and LibXfont2. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact Local attackers could obtain sensitive information or possibly cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There...

The vulnerability of the catalogue.c component in the libXfont library allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the catalogue.c component in the libXfont library arises from an operation that goes beyond the buffer boundaries in memory overflow of a single character. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause a service failure by using the readlink service...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200801-09 (xorg-server libXfont)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200801-09. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. 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...

X.Org X server and Xfont library: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description regenrecht reported multiple vulnerabilities in various X server extension via iDefense: The XFree86-Misc extension does not properly sanitize a parameter within a PassMessage request,...