CVE-2014-0210

high
Published 2014-05-15 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 allow remote font servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted xfs protocol reply to the (1) _fs_recv_conn_setup, (2) fs_read_open_font, (3) fs_read_query_info, (4) fs_read_extent_info, (5) fs_read_glyphs, (6) fs_read_list, or (7) fs_read_list_info function.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu13.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.4.7-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.4.7-2
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.4.7-2
debian debiansidfixed1:1.4.7-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.4.7-2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
xlibxfont{"endIncluding":"1.4.7"}
xlibxfont1.2.3
xlibxfont1.2.4
xlibxfont1.2.5
xlibxfont1.2.6
xlibxfont1.2.7
xlibxfont1.2.8
xlibxfont1.2.9
xlibxfont1.3.0
xlibxfont1.3.1
xlibxfont1.3.2
xlibxfont1.3.3
xlibxfont1.3.4
xlibxfont1.4.0
xlibxfont1.4.1
xlibxfont1.4.2
xlibxfont1.4.3
xlibxfont1.4.4
xlibxfont1.4.5
xlibxfont1.4.6
xlibxfont1.4.99

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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