CVE-2001-0955
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 2, 2002
- Updated
- Aug 8, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 31, 2002
Description
Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 3663vdb-entry
- 3657vdb-entry
- 20011207 Crashing Xmailing-list
- http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#2
- 20011208 Re: Crashing Xmailing-list
- http://www.xfree86.org/security/
- xfree86-xterm-title-bo(7683)vdb-entry
- http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.c
- xfree86-konqueror-bo(7673)vdb-entry
- 20010922 XFree86 DOS / Buffer overflow local and remote.mailing-list
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