CVE-2006-6101

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the ProcRenderAddGlyphs function in the Render extension for X.Org 6.8.2, 6.9.0, 7.0, and 7.1, and XFree86 X server, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted X protocol request that triggers memory corruption during processing of glyph management data structures.

Affected products

X.Org: 6.8.2, 6.9.0, 7.0, 7.1
Xfree86 Project Xfree86: all versions

References

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2007-002.txt.asc
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01075678
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=463
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2007-January/000235.html
http://osvdb.org/32084
http://secunia.com/advisories/23633
http://secunia.com/advisories/23670
http://secunia.com/advisories/23684
http://secunia.com/advisories/23689
http://secunia.com/advisories/23698
http://secunia.com/advisories/23705
http://secunia.com/advisories/23758

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