CVE-2001-0955

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

22/09/2001

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0.3:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2001-0955

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools