A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the way libXfont processed certain Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) fonts. A malicious, local user could use this flaw to crash the X.Org server.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | libXfont | 2015-09-22 10:00 | ALAS-2015-597 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 8.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |