CVE-2008-0006

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.

🔗 References (134)

• secalert@redhathttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204362
• secalert@redhathttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
• secalert@redhathttp://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01543321
• secalert@redhathttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN88935101/index.html
• secalert@redhathttp://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-001043.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-January/031918.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00004.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/28273
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/28500
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/28532
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/28535
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/28536
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/28540