CVE-2004-0083

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 21.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a font alias file (font.alias) with a long token, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0084 and CVE-2004-0106.

Affected products

OpenBSD: 3.3, 3.4
Xfree86 Project X11R6: 4.1.0, 4.1.11, 4.1.12, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.3.0

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000821
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107644835523678&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107653324115914&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110979666528890&w=2
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200402-02.xml
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57768-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-443
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=72
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/820006
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:012
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_06_xf86.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-059.html

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