This CVE name corresponds to:
Entered | Topic |
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2014-05-13 | libXfont -- X Font Service Protocol and Font metadata file handling issues |
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Type | Candidate |
Name | CVE-2014-0209 |
Phase | Assigned(20131203) |
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FontFileAddEntry and (2) lexAlias functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 might allow local users to gain privileges by adding a directory with a large fonts.dir or fonts.alias file to the font path, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to metadata.
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