CVE-2014-0209

Description

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.

References

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2211-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67382

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2927

http://secunia.com/advisories/59154

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1893.html

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-May/002431.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00073.html

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0278.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3