[Bug 1203715] CVE-2015-1802 libXfont: missing range check in bdfReadProperties

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Fri Apr 10 13:25:36 UTC 2015


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203715


--- Doc Text *updated* by Martin Prpic <mprpic at redhat.com> ---
An integer overflow flaw was found in the way libXfont processed certain Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) fonts. A malicious, local user could use this flaw to crash the X.Org server or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server.


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