Bug 234055

Summary: CVE-2007-1351 Multiple font integer overflows (CVE-2007-1352)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: XFree86Assignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 3.0CC: kem, security-response-team, xgl-maint
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=important,reported=20070322,embargo=20070403,source=vendorsec
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2007-0125 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2007-03-26 20:22:11 UTC 
iDEFENSE has reported two font related integer overflows.

CVE-2007-1351 describes an integer overflow in the way X parses a BDF font file.

CVE-2007-1352 describes an integer overflow in thw way X parses a fonts.dir file.

Both of these flaws could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2007-03-26 20:27:39 UTC 
Created attachment 150950 [details]
Proposed upstream patch
Comment 5 Josh Bressers 2007-04-03 16:41:25 UTC 
Lifting embargo
Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-04-03 19:15:35 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0125.html