CVE-2006-3739 Information

Description

Integer overflow in the CIDAFM function in X.Org 6.8.2 and XFree86 X server allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files with a modified number of character metrics (StartCharMetrics) which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/21864 http://secunia.com/advisories/21889 http://secunia.com/advisories/21890 http://secunia.com/advisories/21894 http://secunia.com/advisories/21900 http://secunia.com/advisories/21904 http://secunia.com/advisories/21908 http://secunia.com/advisories/21924 http://secunia.com/advisories/22080 http://secunia.com/advisories/22141 http://secunia.com/advisories/22332 http://secunia.com/advisories/22560 http://secunia.com/advisories/23033 http://secunia.com/advisories/23899 http://secunia.com/advisories/24636 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-07.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1016828 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102714-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102780-1 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-190.htm http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-191.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1193 http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=412 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:164 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_23_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0665.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0666.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445812/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464268/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19974 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-344-1 http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200702-patch.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3581 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3582 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0322 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1171 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28899 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-614 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10305