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CVE-2013-6462 (GCVE-0-2013-6462)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-09 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 17:39
VLAI
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-Ja… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2838 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/56357 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://secunia.com/advisories/56371 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://osvdb.org/101842 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64694 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/com… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2014-01-07 00:00
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  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.