libxfont — security advisory
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FontFileAddEntry and (2) lexAlias functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 might allow local users to gain privileges by adding a directory with a large fonts.dir or fonts.alias file to the font path, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to metadata.
- Products
- libxfont
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:1.4.7-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2014-0209
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 21:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FontFileAddEntry and (2) lexAlias functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 might allow local users to gain privileges by adding a directory with a large fonts.dir or fonts.alias file to the font path, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to metadata.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0209
libxfont
Fixed versions: 1:1.4.7-2
libxfont
Fixed versions: 1:1.4.7-2
libxfont
Fixed versions: 1:1.4.7-2
Complete source record
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