CVE-2015-1804

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.

Score
CVSS 2.0 8.5 High
Status
Modified - secalert@redhat.com
Published
2015-03-20
Last modified
2024-08-06
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Affected products

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