CVE-2015-1804

EPSS 5.0%

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.

Affected products

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References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0113.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152838.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00032.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00074.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-21 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html