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

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) fs_get_reply, (2) fs_alloc_glyphs, and (3) fs_read_extent_info functions 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 reply, which triggers a buffer overflow.

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x libxfont 1.2.8
x libxfont 1.2.9
x libxfont 1.4.1
x libxfont 1.4.2
x libxfont 1.2.3
x libxfont 1.2.4
x libxfont 1.2.5
x libxfont 1.3.2
x libxfont 1.3.3
x libxfont 1.4.5
x libxfont 1.4.6
x libxfont 1.2.6
x libxfont 1.2.7
x libxfont 1.3.4
x libxfont 1.4.0
x libxfont
x libxfont 1.4.99
x libxfont 1.3.0
x libxfont 1.3.1
x libxfont 1.4.3
x libxfont 1.4.4

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 ...

CWE-189 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2211-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2927 http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-May/002431.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00073.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1893.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0278.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67382 http://secunia.com/advisories/59154 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded https://usn.ubuntu.com/2211-1/https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-0211

CVE-2014-0211

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