CVE-2008-0006

Summary

CVECVE-2008-0006
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-01-18 23:00:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-15 21:56:00 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in (1) X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1, and (2) the libfont and libXfont libraries on some platforms including Sun Solaris, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PCF font with a large difference between the last col and first col values in the PCF_BDF_ENCODINGS table.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sun Solaris Libfont All All All All
Application Sun Solaris Libfont All All All All
Application Sun Solaris Libxfont All All All All
Application Sun Solaris Libxfont All All All All
Application X.org Xserver All All All All

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