vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-3b9590a1-e358-11e7-a293-54e1ad3d6335 (CVE-2017-13722): libXfont -- multiple memory leaks

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 17, 2017
Added
Dec 20, 2017
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

The freedesktop.org project reports: If a pattern contains '?' character, any character in the string is skipped, even if it is '\0'. The rest of the matching then reads invalid memory. Without the checks a malformed PCF file can cause the library to make atom from random heap memory that was behind the `strings` buffer. This may crash the process or leak information.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-package-libxfontfreebsd-upgrade-package-libxfont2
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