Scientific Linux: CVE-2008-0006 Critical libXfont Buffer Overflow

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:45:18 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for libXfont on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: libXfont security update
Issue date:	2008-01-17
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-0006

A heap based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the X.Org server
handled malformed font files. A malicious local user could exploit this
issue to potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
X.Org server. (CVE-2008-0006)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1.src.rpm
 i386:
libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson