Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libxfont1 package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBXFONT1-271095
- published 11 Oct 2017
- disclosed 11 Oct 2017
Introduced: 11 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-13722 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9
libxfont1
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxfont1
package and not the libxfont1
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
In the pcfGetProperties function in bitmap/pcfread.c in libXfont through 1.5.2 and 2.x before 2.0.2, a missing boundary check (for PCF files) could be used by local attackers authenticated to an Xserver for a buffer over-read, for information disclosure or a crash of the X server.
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3995
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13722
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-08
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049692
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=672bb944311392e2415b39c0d63b1e1902905bcd
- https://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/libXfont2-2.0.2.tar.bz2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500693
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-13722