Security Advisory

CVE-2017-13720

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-10-11 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 19:05:20
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the PatternMatch function in fontfile/fontdir.c in libXfont through 1.5.2 and 2.x before 2.0.2, an attacker with access to an X connection can cause a buffer over-read during pattern matching of fonts, leading to information disclosure or a crash (denial of service). This occurs because '\0' characters are incorrectly skipped in situations involving ? characters.