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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0006

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-0006

Description:
Buffer overflow in (1) X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1, and (2) the libfont and libXfont libraries on some platforms including Sun Solaris, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PCF font with a large difference between the last col and first col values in the PCF_BDF_ENCODINGS table.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/39767

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-571-1

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00004.html
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html

SUNALERT
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-201230-1
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103192-1

ST
  1019232

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA29420
  Secunia Advisory: SA29139
  Secunia Advisory: SA28941
  Secunia Advisory: SA28885
  Secunia Advisory: SA28843
  Secunia Advisory: SA28718
  Secunia Advisory: SA28621
  Secunia Advisory: SA28571
  Secunia Advisory: SA28592
  Secunia Advisory: SA28500
  Secunia Advisory: SA28550
  Secunia Advisory: SA28273
  Secunia Advisory: SA28544
  Secunia Advisory: SA28542
  Secunia Advisory: SA28540
  Secunia Advisory: SA28535
  Secunia Advisory: SA28536
  Secunia Advisory: SA28532
  Secunia Advisory: SA29622
  Secunia Advisory: SA29707

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0029.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0030.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0064.html

OPENBSD
  http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#006_xorg
  http://www.openbsd.org/errata41.html#012_xorg

MLIST
  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-January/031918.html

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:022
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:024
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:021

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-09.xml
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-05.xml

FEDORA

CONFIRM
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
  http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-077.htm
  http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX61&path=/200802/SECURITY/20080227/datafile112539&label=AIX%20X%20server%20multiple%20vulnerabilities
  http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-038.htm
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204362

CERT-VN
  203220

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/487335/100/0/threaded

BID
  27336
  27352

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html


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