CVE-2001-0955 Information

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.

Reference

http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.c http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100776624224549&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100784290015880&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100118958310463&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3657 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3663 http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html2 http://www.xfree86.org/security/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7673 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7683