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CVE-2013-6462

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
09/01/2014
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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