Debian 7: DLA-1126-1 Critical: Libxfont Memory Access Threat
debian lts
October 7, 2017
It was discovered that there two vulnerabilities the library providing font selection and rasterisation, libxfont: * CVE-2017-13720: If a pattern contained a '?' character any char...
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Summary
* CVE-2017-13720: If a pattern contained a '?' character any character
in the string is skipped even if it was a '\0'. The rest of the
matching then read invalid memory.
* CVE-2017-13722: A malformed PCF file could cause the library to make
reads from random heap memory that was behind the `strings` buffer,
leading to an application crash or a information leak.
For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in libxfont version
1:1.4.5-5+deb7u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libxfont packages.
Regards,
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: :' : Chris Lamb
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Package: libxfont
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