{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2014-05-13T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "libXfont: integer overflow of allocations in font metadata file parsing",
    "id" : "1096593",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096593"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-190",
  "details" : [ "Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FontFileAddEntry and (2) lexAlias functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 might allow local users to gain privileges by adding a directory with a large fonts.dir or fonts.alias file to the font path, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to metadata.", "A use-after-free flaw was found in the way libXfont processed certain font files when attempting to add a new directory to the font path. A malicious, local user could exploit this issue to potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank X.org project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Ilja van Sprundel as the original reporter.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2014-11-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:1893",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "libXfont-0:1.2.2-1.0.6.el5_11"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2014-11-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:1870",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "libXfont-0:1.4.5-4.el6_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2014-11-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:1870",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "libXfont-0:1.4.7-2.el7_0"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0209\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0209\nhttp://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-May/002431.html" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-0209",
  "csaw" : false
}