CVE-2008-0006
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: http://secunia.com/advisories/28273, http://secunia.com/advisories/28500, http://secunia.com/advisories/28532, http://secunia.com/advisories/28535, http://secunia.com/advisories/28536, http://secunia.com/advisories/28540, http://secunia.com/advisories/28542, http://secunia.com/advisories/28544, http://secunia.com/advisories/28550, http://secunia.com/advisories/28571, http://secunia.com/advisories/28592, http://secunia.com/advisories/28621, http://secunia.com/advisories/28718, http://secunia.com/advisories/28843, http://secunia.com/advisories/28885, http://secunia.com/advisories/28941, http://secunia.com/advisories/29139, http://secunia.com/advisories/29420, http://secunia.com/advisories/29622, http://secunia.com/advisories/29707, http://secunia.com/advisories/30161, http://secunia.com/advisories/32545, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-09.xml, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-05.xml, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:021, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:022, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:024, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0179, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0184, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0497/references, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0703, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3000, http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-January/031918.html, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103192-1, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27336, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428044, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204362, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562, http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01543321, http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN88935101/index.html, http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-001043.html, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00004.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html, http://securitytracker.com/id?1019232, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-201230-1, http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-038.htm, http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-077.htm, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/203220, http://www.openbsd.org/errata41.html#012_xorg, http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#006_xorg, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0029.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0030.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0064.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487335/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27352, http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX61&path=/200802/SECURITY/20080227/datafile112539&label=AIX%20X%20server%20multiple%20vulnerabilities, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39767, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2010, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10021, https://usn.ubuntu.com/571-1/, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00641.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00674.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00704.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00771.html
