CVE-2001-0955

High

Description

Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.2
Exploit probability—
ProductXfree86 Project X11r6
PublishedSep 22, 2001
First seenSep 22, 2001

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
xfree86_project x11r64.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.3—

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