VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-1804

CVSS score8.5 HIGH
EPSS probability4.96%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2015-03-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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 perform type conversion for metrics values, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.

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