CVE-2015-1804
EPSS 3.1%Published: 3/20/2015Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1804
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 perform type conversion for metrics values, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/libxfontfrom 0, < 1:1.5.1-1