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CVE-2008-2361

Published: Jun 16, 2008 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2361
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/189.html

Integer overflow in the ProcRenderCreateCursor function in the Render extension in the X server 1.4 in X.Org X11R7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via unspecified request fields that are used to calculate a glyph buffer size, which triggers a dereference of unmapped memory.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
X11Xorgr7.3 (including)r7.3 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3RedHatXFree86-0:4.3.0-128.EL*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatxorg-x11-0:6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatxorg-x11-server-0:1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1*
Xorg-serverUbuntudapper*
Xorg-serverUbuntudevel*
Xorg-serverUbuntufeisty*
Xorg-serverUbuntugutsy*
Xorg-serverUbuntuhardy*
Xorg-serverUbuntuupstream*

References

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