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CVE-2017-13722

Published: Oct 11, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

In the pcfGetProperties function in bitmap/pcfread.c in libXfont through 1.5.2 and 2.x before 2.0.2, a missing boundary check (for PCF files) could be used by local attackers authenticated to an Xserver for a buffer over-read, for information disclosure or a crash of the X server.

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

References

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=672bb944311392e2415b39c0d63b1e1902905bcd

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

https://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/libXfont2-2.0.2.tar.bz2

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500693

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049692

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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