PT-2015-5446 · X.Org Foundation+4 · Libxfont+4

Ilja Van Sprundel · Published 2015-03-17 · Updated 2016-12-22 · CVE-2015-1802

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

8.5

High

Base vector

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 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative or large property count in a BDF font file. This is due to a problem in the bdfReadProperties function.

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.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CESA-2015_1708

CVE-2015-1802

DLA-183-1

DSA-3194-1

MGASA-2015-0113

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_0614-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10299-1

RHSA-2015:1708

RHSA-2015_1708

SUSE-SU-2015:0674-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0702-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0674-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0702-1

USN-2536-1

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Libxfont

References · 70

• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1802 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-21 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1802 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libxfont · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1802 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1803 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0113 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-1802 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3194-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-03-17 · Vendor Advisory