Security Advisory

CVE-2013-6462

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-01-09 15:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 17:39:01

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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