Security Advisory

CVE-2015-1802

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-03-20 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 04:54:16
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The bdfReadProperties function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) negative or (2) large property count in a BDF font file.