CVE-2015-1803

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The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not proper

The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly handle character bitmaps it cannot read, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.

HIGH · CVSS 8.5 EPSS 0.0229

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CVSS base score ≥ 7.0

Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

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Affected Products & Versions

canonical ubuntu linuxall versions
debian linuxall versions
x libxfont<= 1.4.8
x libxfontall versions

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Scoring & Timeline

8.5

HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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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:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published to NVD20 Mar 2015 · 02:59 PM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10299-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:0702-1
usnUSN-2536-1
rhsaRHSA-2015:1708Important
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:0674-1

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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://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0113.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152838.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00032.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00005.html

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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73280

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031935

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2536-1

http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-03-17/Vendor Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-21

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