USN-2536-1

Ilja van Sprundel, Alan Coopersmith, and William Robinet discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled malformed bdf fonts. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libxfont

Package

Name: libxfont
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxfont@1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.2

Affected versions

1:1.*

1:1.4.6-1

1:1.4.6-1ubuntu1

1:1.4.7-1

1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.2",
            "binary_name": "libxfont-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.2",
            "binary_name": "libxfont1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-1802",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-1803",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-1804",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}