CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-0955

Published: Sep 22, 2001 | Modified: Dec 19, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
X11r6 Xfree86_project 4.0 (including) 4.0 (including)
X11r6 Xfree86_project 4.0.1 (including) 4.0.1 (including)
X11r6 Xfree86_project 4.0.3 (including) 4.0.3 (including)

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