CVE-2014-2978 Information

Description

The Dispatch_Write function in proxy/dispatcher/idirectfbsurface_dispatcher.c in DirectFB 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the Voodoo interface which triggers an out-of-bounds write.

Reference

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0176.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00019.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00003.html http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2014-March/006805.html http://secunia.com/advisories/58448 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:223 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/15/10 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-55