CVE-2014-0209 (GCVE-0-2014-0209)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-15 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:05
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2211-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/59154 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2927 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1893.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67382 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-Ma… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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Date Public
2014-05-13 00:00
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