CVE-2001-0955

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Summary

CVECVE-2001-0955
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2001-09-22 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xfree86 Project X11r6 4.0 All All All
Application Xfree86 Project X11r6 4.0.1 All All All
Application Xfree86 Project X11r6 4.0.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
XFree86(TM): Security Issues af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.xfree86.org
'Re: Crashing X' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
'XFree86 DOS / Buffer overflow local and remote.' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Summary of new features in 4.2.0. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.xfree86.org
XTerm Title Bar Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Vendor Advisory
XFree86 fbglyph Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
'Crashing X' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVS log for xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.c af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 cvsweb.xfree86.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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