CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-4990

Published: Oct 05, 2007 | Modified: Oct 15, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The swap_char2b function in X.Org X Font Server (xfs) before 1.0.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) QueryXBitmaps and (2) QueryXExtents protocol requests with crafted size values that specify an arbitrary number of bytes to be swapped on the heap, which triggers heap corruption.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
X_font_server X.org * 1.0.4 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RedHat XFree86-0:4.1.0-86.EL *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RedHat XFree86-0:4.3.0-126.EL *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat xorg-x11-0:6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2 *
Xfs Ubuntu dapper *
Xfs Ubuntu edgy *
Xfs Ubuntu feisty *
Xfs Ubuntu gutsy *
Xfs Ubuntu upstream *

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