ELSA-2008-0064 Important: Enterprise Linux libXfont security update
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
01/18/2008
07/25/2018
12/20/2011
07/04/2017
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-libxfont
- oracle-linux-upgrade-libxfont-devel
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