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x11: xfs font server overflows

Package(s):x11 CVE #(s):CVE-2007-4568 CVE-2007-4989 CVE-2007-4990
Created:October 4, 2007 Updated:January 18, 2008
Description: xorg-x11 has a number of integer and heap overflow vulnerabilities in the xfs font server. A local attacker may be able to use these for the execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0029-01 2008-01-18
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0030-01 2008-01-17
Fedora FEDORA-2007-4263 2007-12-10
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:210 2007-11-06
Gentoo 200710-11 2007-10-12
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:054 2007-10-12
Debian DSA-1385-1 2007-10-09
rPath rPSA-2007-0205-1 2007-10-03
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