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CVE-2013-6462

CVE-2013-6462

EPSS 10.3%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=4d024ac10f964f6bd372ae0dd14f02772a6e5f63http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00050.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00052.htmlhttp://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-January/002389.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/101842http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0018.htmlhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/33http://secunia.com/advisories/56240http://secunia.com/advisories/56336http://secunia.com/advisories/56357http://secunia.com/advisories/56371https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90123