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libxfont: privilege escalation

Package(s):

libxfont

CVE #(s):

CVE-2011-2895

Created:

August 12, 2011

Updated:

December 19, 2011

Description:

From the Debian advisory:

Tomas Hoger found a buffer overflow in the X.Org libXfont library, which may allow for a local privilege escalation through crafted font files.

Alerts:

Red Hat	RHSA-2011:1834-01	2011-12-19
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2011:1306-1	2011-12-08
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2011:1035-2	2011-12-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2011:1299-1	2011-12-05
Mandriva	MDVSA-2011:153	2011-10-17
Mandriva	MDVSA-2011:146	2011-10-11
CentOS	CESA-2011:1154	2011-09-22
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2011:1035-1	2011-09-13
CentOS	CESA-2011:1161	2011-08-16
Scientific Linux	SL-free-20110815	2011-08-15
Scientific Linux	SL-xorg-20110811	2011-08-11
Scientific Linux	SL-libX-20110811	2011-08-11
Red Hat	RHSA-2011:1161-01	2011-08-15
Ubuntu	USN-1191-1	2011-08-15
CentOS	CESA-2011:1155	2011-08-14
Red Hat	RHSA-2011:1155-01	2011-08-11
Red Hat	RHSA-2011:1154-01	2011-08-11
Debian	DSA-2293-1	2011-08-12
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:0553-1	2012-04-23

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