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CVSSv2

CVE-2008-0006

Published: 18/01/2008 Updated: 15/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in (1) X.Org Xserver prior to 1.4.1, and (2) the libfont and libXfont libraries on some platforms including Sun Solaris, allows context-dependent malicious users to execute arbitrary code via a PCF font with a large difference between the last col and first col values in the PCF_BDF_ENCODINGS table.

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Ubuntu Security Notice: xorg-server regression
USN-571-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Xorg The upstream fixes were incomplete, and under certain situations, applications using the MIT-SHM extension (eg Java, wxWidgets) would crash with BadAlloc X errors This update fixes the problem ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: libxfont, xorg-server vulnerabilities
Multiple overflows were discovered in the XFree86-Misc, XInput-Misc, TOG-CUP, EVI, and MIT-SHM extensions which did not correctly validate function arguments An authenticated attacker could send specially crafted requests and gain root privileges (CVE-2007-5760, CVE-2007-6427, CVE-2007-6428, CVE-2007-6429) ...

References

CWE-119http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-January/031918.htmlhttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103192-1http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/203220http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27336http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0029.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0030.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0064.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00004.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27352http://securitytracker.com/id?1019232http://secunia.com/advisories/28532http://secunia.com/advisories/28535http://secunia.com/advisories/28536http://secunia.com/advisories/28540http://secunia.com/advisories/28542http://secunia.com/advisories/28544http://secunia.com/advisories/28550http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204362https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428044http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-038.htmhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00641.htmlhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00674.htmlhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00704.htmlhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00771.htmlhttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-09.xmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:021http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:022http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:024http://secunia.com/advisories/28273http://secunia.com/advisories/28500http://secunia.com/advisories/28592http://secunia.com/advisories/28571http://secunia.com/advisories/28621https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2010http://secunia.com/advisories/28718http://www.openbsd.org/errata41.html#012_xorghttp://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#006_xorghttp://secunia.com/advisories/28843http://secunia.com/advisories/28885http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-077.htmhttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-201230-1http://secunia.com/advisories/28941http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX61&path=/200802/SECURITY/20080227/datafile112539&label=AIX%20X%20server%20multiple%20vulnerabilitieshttp://secunia.com/advisories/29139http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29420http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29622http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-05.xmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29707http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30161http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3000http://secunia.com/advisories/32545http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01543321http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-001043.htmlhttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN88935101/index.htmlhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0184http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0179http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0497/referenceshttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/referenceshttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0703https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39767https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10021https://usn.ubuntu.com/571-1/http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487335/100/0/threadedhttps://nvd.nist.govhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/571-2/https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/203220
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