CVE-2008-0006

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-01-17
Bugzilla:
428044: CVE-2008-0006 Xorg / XFree86 PCF font parser buffer overflow

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer 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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-0006 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (XFree86) RHSA-2008:0029 2008-01-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (xorg-x11) RHSA-2008:0030 2008-01-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (XFree86) RHSA-2008:0029 2008-01-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (libXfont) RHSA-2008:0064 2008-01-17

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