CVE-2015-1804

NameCVE-2015-1804
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-183-1, DSA-3194-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libxfont (PTS)buster1:2.0.3-1fixed
bullseye1:2.0.4-1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm1:2.0.6-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libxfontsourcesqueeze1:1.4.1-5+deb6u1DLA-183-1
libxfontsourcewheezy1:1.4.5-5DSA-3194-1
libxfontsource(unstable)1:1.5.1-1

Notes

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-March/002550.html

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