CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0955

7.2 HIGH Published 2001-09-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-09-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.

Affected configurations

• xfree86 project x11r6 4.0 • xfree86 project x11r6 4.0.1 • xfree86 project x11r6 4.0.3

References