CVE-2014-0209

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FontFileAddEntry and (2) lexAlias functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 might allow local users to gain privileges by adding a directory with a large fonts.dir or fonts.alias file to the font path, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to metadata.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Libxfont	X	*	1.4.7 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.2.3 (including)	1.2.3 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.2.4 (including)	1.2.4 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.2.5 (including)	1.2.5 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.2.6 (including)	1.2.6 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.2.7 (including)	1.2.7 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.2.8 (including)	1.2.8 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.2.9 (including)	1.2.9 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.3.0 (including)	1.3.0 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.3.1 (including)	1.3.1 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.3.2 (including)	1.3.2 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.3.3 (including)	1.3.3 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.3.4 (including)	1.3.4 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.4.0 (including)	1.4.0 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.4.1 (including)	1.4.1 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.4.2 (including)	1.4.2 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.4.3 (including)	1.4.3 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.4.4 (including)	1.4.4 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.4.5 (including)	1.4.5 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.4.6 (including)	1.4.6 (including)
Libxfont	X	1.4.99 (including)	1.4.99 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	RedHat	libXfont-0:1.2.2-1.0.6.el5_11	*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	RedHat	libXfont-0:1.4.5-4.el6_6	*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	RedHat	libXfont-0:1.4.7-2.el7_0	*
Libxfont	Ubuntu	esm-infra-legacy/trusty	*
Libxfont	Ubuntu	lucid	*
Libxfont	Ubuntu	precise	*
Libxfont	Ubuntu	quantal	*
Libxfont	Ubuntu	saucy	*
Libxfont	Ubuntu	trusty	*
Libxfont	Ubuntu	trusty/esm	*
Libxfont	Ubuntu	upstream	*

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0209
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/189.html

Affected Software

References