7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-0210

Published: 15/05/2014 Updated: 09/10/2018
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

Vulnerability Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in X.Org libXfont prior to 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x prior to 1.4.99.901 allow remote font servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted xfs protocol reply to the (1) _fs_recv_conn_setup, (2) fs_read_open_font, (3) fs_read_query_info, (4) fs_read_extent_info, (5) fs_read_glyphs, (6) fs_read_list, or (7) fs_read_list_info function.

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x libxfont 1.2.8

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x libxfont 1.4.3

x libxfont 1.2.4

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x libxfont 1.3.2

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x libxfont 1.2.6

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x libxfont 1.4.0

x libxfont 1.4.1

x libxfont 1.4.99

x libxfont 1.2.3

x libxfont 1.3.0

x libxfont 1.3.1

x libxfont 1.4.4

x libxfont 1.4.5

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Vendor Advisories

Several security issues were fixed in libXfont ...
Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in the XOrg libXfont library, which may allow a local, authenticated user to attempt to raise privileges; or a remote attacker who can control the font server to attempt to execute code with the privileges of the X server CVE-2014-0209 Integer overflow of allocations in font me ...
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) fs_get_reply, (2) fs_alloc_glyphs, and (3) fs_read_extent_info functions in XOrg libXfont before 148 and 149x before 1499901 allow remote font servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted xfs reply, which triggers a buffer overflow Multiple buffer overflows in XOrg libXfont before 148 and 149x ...
Multiple out-of-bounds write flaws were found in the way libXfont parsed replies received from an Xorg font server A malicious Xorg server could cause an X client to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the XOrg server ...