vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-08a125f3-e35a-11e7-a293-54e1ad3d6335 (CVE-2017-16611): libXfont -- permission bypass when opening files through symlinks
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Dec 17, 2017 | Dec 20, 2017 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 17, 2017
Added
Dec 20, 2017
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
the freedesktop.org project reports: A non-privileged X client can instruct X server running under root to open any file by creating own directory with "fonts.dir", "fonts.alias" or any font file being a symbolic link to any other file in the system. X server will then open it. This can be issue with special files such as /dev/watchdog.
Solutions
freebsd-upgrade-package-libxfontfreebsd-upgrade-package-libxfont2
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