CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-2978
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-06-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The Dispatch_Write function in proxy/dispatcher/idirectfbsurface_dispatcher.c in DirectFB 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the Voodoo interface, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.
Affected configurations
• directfb directfb 1.4.4
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• suse linux enterprise desktop 12
• suse linux enterprise software development kit 12
• suse linux enterprise workstation extension 12
• suse suse linux enterprise server 12
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0176.html advisories.mageia.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00019.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2014-March/006805.html mail.directfb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58448 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:223 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/15/10 www.openwall.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-55 security.gentoo.org
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0176.html advisories.mageia.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00019.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2014-March/006805.html mail.directfb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58448 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:223 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/15/10 www.openwall.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-55 security.gentoo.org