CVE-2013-4396

Published Oct 10, 2013

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ImageText request that triggers memory-allocation failure.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.5
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-399

Evaluator

Comment
Per: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014561 "' A malicious, authorized client could use this flaw to crash the X.Org server or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with root privileges.'
Impact
-
Solution
-

Configurations