CVE-2008-0006 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in (1) X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1 and (2) the libfont and libXfont libraries on some platforms including Sun Solaris allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PCF font with a large difference between the last col and first col values in the PCF_BDF_ENCODINGS table.

Reference

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