CVE-2015-1804 (GCVE-0-2015-1804)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-20 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:54
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Summary
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 perform type conversion for metrics values, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-03-17 00:00
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