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CVE-2015-1803

Public on 2015-03-20
Modified on 2015-09-22
Description

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.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
1.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 libXfont 2015-09-22 10:00 ALAS-2015-597

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
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