CVE-2015-1804 | BDVDB-2026-68563 Detail
Description#
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-21
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00074.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2536-1
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152838.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00032.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031935
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145
- http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-03-17/
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0113.html
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.