PT-2015-5447 · X.Org Foundation+5 · Libxfont+5
Ilja Van Sprundel
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Publicado
2015-03-17
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Atualizado
2016-12-31
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CVE-2015-1803
CVSS v2.0
8.5
Alta
| Vetor | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
libXfont versions prior to 1.4.9
libXfont versions 1.5.x prior to 1.5.1
Description
The issue is related to the
bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c, which does not properly handle character bitmaps it cannot read. This allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.Recommendations
For libXfont versions prior to 1.4.9, update to version 1.4.9 or later.
For libXfont versions 1.5.x prior to 1.5.1, update to version 1.5.1 or later.
Correção
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Identificadores relacionados
Produtos afetados
Alt Linux
Centos
Red Hat
Suse
Ubuntu
Libxfont