CVE-2014-0209
Fixed in a distro release EPSS <1%
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FontFileAddEntry and (2) lexAlias functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 might allow local users to gain privileges by adding a directory with a large fonts.dir or fonts.alias file to the font path, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to metadata.
Products: libxfont, canonical ubuntu_linux
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 12 | libxfont | 1:1.4.7-2 |
| Debian 13 | libxfont | 1:1.4.7-2 |
| Debian 14 | libxfont | 1:1.4.7-2 |
| Debian 6.0 | libxfont | 1:1.4.1-5 |
| Debian 7 | libxfont | 1:1.4.5-4 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | libXfont | 0:1.2.2-1.0.6.el5_11 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | libXfont-debuginfo | 0:1.2.2-1.0.6.el5_11 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | libXfont-devel | 0:1.2.2-1.0.6.el5_11 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | libXfont | 0:1.4.5-4.el6_6 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | libXfont-debuginfo | 0:1.4.5-4.el6_6 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | libXfont-devel | 0:1.4.5-4.el6_6 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | libXfont | 0:1.4.7-2.el7_0 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | libXfont-debuginfo | 0:1.4.7-2.el7_0 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | libXfont-devel | 0:1.4.7-2.el7_0 |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | libxfont | 1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.1 |