CVE-2015-1803

Canonical Ubuntu Linux < 1.4.8 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly handle character bitmaps it cannot read, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.

References (16)

Core 16

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-21

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152838.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0113.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00005.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73280

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00002.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2536-1

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00032.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031935

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-03-17/

Scores

EPSS 0.0486

EPSS Percentile 91.1%

Details

Status published

Products (7)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 10.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.10

debian/debian_linux 7.0

x/libxfont 1.5.0

x/libxfont < 1.4.8

Published Mar 20, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026