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CVE-2008-0006

CVE information

Published

16 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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Description

Buffer overflow in (1) X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1, and (2) the libfont and libXfont libraries on some platforms including Sun Solaris, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PCF font with a large difference between the last col and first col values in the PCF_BDF_ENCODINGS table..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sun:solaris_libxfont:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sun:solaris_libfont:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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