CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-3739

7.2 HIGH Published 2006-09-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-09-13
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

Integer overflow in the CIDAFM function in X.Org 6.8.2 and XFree86 X server allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files with a modified number of character metrics (StartCharMetrics), which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected configurations

• x.org x.org 6.8.2 • xfree86 project xfree86 x

References