Buffer overflow in (1) X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1, and (2) the libfont and libXfont libraries on some platforms including Sun Solaris, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PCF font with a large difference between the last col and first col values in the PCF_BDF_ENCODINGS table.
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History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2008-01-18T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:32:23.335Z

Reserved: 2007-12-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-0006

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-01-18T23:00:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:40:57.517

Link: CVE-2008-0006

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2008-01-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-0006 - Bugzilla