CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-1803

Published: Mar 20, 2015 | Modified: Dec 31, 2016
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
8.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly handle character bitmaps it cannot read, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 12.04 12.04
Debian_linux Debian 7.0 7.0
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 14.10 14.10
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 14.04 14.04
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 10.04 10.04

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