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xorg-x11-xfs: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):xorg-x11-xfs CVE #(s):
Created:December 10, 2007 Updated:December 12, 2007
Description:

From the xorg advisory:

Several vulnerabilities have been identified in xfs, the X font server. The QueryXBitmaps and QueryXExtents protocol requests suffer from lack of validation of their 'length' parameters. Maliciously crafted requests can either cause two different problems with both requests:

* An integer overflow in the computation of the size of a dynamic buffer can lead to a heap overflow in the build_range() function.

* An arbitrary number of bytes on the heap can be swapped by the swap_char2b() function.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-763 2007-12-07

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