CVE-2006-3740

Summary

CVECVE-2006-3740
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-09-13 01:07:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:29:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in the scan_cidfont function in X.Org 6.8.2 and XFree86 X server allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) CMap and (2) CIDFont font data with modified item counts in the (a) begincodespacerange, (b) cidrange, and (c) notdefrange sections.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application X.org X.org 6.8.2 All All All
Application X.org X.org 6.8.2 All All All
Application Xfree86 Project Xfree86 X All All All All
Application Xfree86 Project Xfree86 X All All All All

References

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Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
usn/usn-344-1 - Ubuntu: Linux for human beings UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
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