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CVE-2001-0955
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.2/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 10/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Complete
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- Complete
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3663
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3657
- http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#2
- http://www.xfree86.org/security/
- http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.c
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100784290015880&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100118958310463&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100776624224549&w=2
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7683
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7673