CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-13722
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the pcfGetProperties function in bitmap/pcfread.c in libXfont through 1.5.2 and 2.x before 2.0.2, a missing boundary check (for PCF files) could be used by local attackers authenticated to an Xserver for a buffer over-read, for information disclosure or a crash of the X server.
Affected configurations
• x.org libxfont (<= 1.5.2)
• x.org libxfont 2.0.0
• x.org libxfont 2.0.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3995 www.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500693 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049692 Issue Tracking
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=672bb944311392e2415b39c0d63b1e1902905bcd Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-08 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/libXfont2-2.0.2.tar.bz2 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3995 www.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500693 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049692 Issue Tracking
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=672bb944311392e2415b39c0d63b1e1902905bcd Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-08 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/libXfont2-2.0.2.tar.bz2 Vendor Advisory