CVE-2015-1803
EPSS 2.3%Published: 3/20/2015Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly handle character bitmaps it cannot read, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/libxfontfrom 0, < 1:1.5.1-1