high7.5
CVE-2008-0006
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…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Solaris Libfont | All versions |
| Sun | Solaris Libxfont | All versions |
| X.Org | Xserver | through 1.4 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204362
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01543321
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN88935101/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-001043.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-January/031918.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28273
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28500
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28532
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28535
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28536
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28540
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28542
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28544
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28550
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28571
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28592
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28621
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28718
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28843
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28885
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28941