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SUSE: CVE-2015-1804: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2015-1804: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/20/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/18/2015
Modified
06/21/2021

Description

The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly perform type conversion for metrics values, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libxfont-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libxfont1
  • suse-upgrade-xorg-x11-devel
  • suse-upgrade-xorg-x11-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xorg-x11-libs
  • suse-upgrade-xorg-x11-libs-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xorg-x11-libs-x86

References

  • SUSE-SU-2015:0674
  • SUSE-SU-2015:0674-1
  • SUSE-SU-2015:0702
  • SUSE-SU-2015:0702-1
  • RHSA-2015:1708
  • DLA-183-1
  • DSA-3194
  • MDVSA-2015:145
  • 73279
  • 1031935
  • USN-2536-1
  • GLSA-201507-21
  • CVE-2015-1804
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