CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-1804
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-03-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly perform type conversion for metrics values, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.
Affected configurations
• x libxfont (<= 1.4.8)
• x libxfont 1.5.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0113.html advisories.mageia.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152838.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00032.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00074.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73279 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031935 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2536-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-03-17/ Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-21 security.gentoo.org
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0113.html advisories.mageia.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152838.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00032.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00074.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73279 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031935 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2536-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-03-17/ Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-21 security.gentoo.org