Summary
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the processing of Glyph Bitmap Distribution fonts (BDF) could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.4.1-4.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.4.5-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.4.7-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libxfont packages.
Affected
libxfont on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-6462 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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