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CVE-2013-6462

Published: Jan 9, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

openSUSE-SU-2014:0075

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

[xorg-announce] 20140107 X.Org Security Advisory: CVE-2013-6462: Stack buffer overflow in parsing of BDF font files in libXfont

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

[oss-security] 20140107 Fwd: X.Org Security Advisory: CVE-2013-6462: Stack buffer overflow in parsing of BDF font files in libXfont

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

openSUSE-SU-2014:0073

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

vdb-entry

x_refsource_OSVDB

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=4d024ac10f964f6bd372ae0dd14f02772a6e5f63

x_refsource_CONFIRM

libxfont-cve20136462-bo(90123)

vdb-entry

x_refsource_XF

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