CVE-2014-0209 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0278.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00073.html http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-May/002431.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1893.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 http://secunia.com/advisories/59154 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2927 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67382 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2211-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html