CVE-2001-0955

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Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to c

Buffer 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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.0008

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CVSS base score ≥ 7.0

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Affected Products & Versions

xfree86 project x11r6all versions

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Scoring & Timeline

7.2

HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

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

Published to NVD22 Sep 2001 · 04:00 AM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.c

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100776624224549&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100784290015880&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100118958310463&w=2

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3657PatchVendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3663Vendor Advisory

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http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#2

http://www.xfree86.org/security/

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7673

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7683

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