CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-3739

Published: Sep 13, 2006 | Modified: Oct 17, 2018
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

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
X.org X.org 6.8.2 (including) 6.8.2 (including)
Xfree86_x Xfree86_project * *

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