CVE-2015-1803

Severity

85%

Complexity

68%

Confidentiality

165%

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

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.

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 8.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2015-03-20 14:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-31 02:59:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS

10.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10

14.10

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

References

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

FEDORA-2015-4199

FEDORA-2015-4230

openSUSE-SU-2015:0614

SUSE-SU-2015:0674

SUSE-SU-2015:0702

RHSA-2015:1708

DSA-3194

MDVSA-2015:145

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

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

73280

1031935

USN-2536-1

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

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-201507-21

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