[Bug 1203719] CVE-2015-1804 libXfont: out-of-bounds memory access in bdfReadCharacters

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Fri Apr 10 13:27:33 UTC 2015


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203719


--- Doc Text *updated* by Martin Prpic <mprpic at redhat.com> ---
An integer truncation flaw was discovered 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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