CVE-2013-6462 (GCVE-0-2013-6462)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-09 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 17:39
VLAI
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-Ja… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2838 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/56357 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0018.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/56240 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/56336 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2078-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/56371 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://osvdb.org/101842 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64694 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/com… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
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2014-01-07 00:00
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