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CVE-2003-0581

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

X Fontserver for Truetype fonts (xfstt) 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) FS_QueryXExtents8 or (2) FS_QueryXBitmaps8 packet, and possibly other types of packets, with a large num_ranges value, which causes an out-of-bounds array access.

Affected products

• Xfstt: 1.2.1, 1.4

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105829691405446&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-360
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105829691405446&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-360

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