DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0006

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0006

    Published: 18 Jan 2008Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2008-0006

    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: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0006

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxfont

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/libxfont?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:1.3.1-2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High